How to verify revocation?
Hauke Laging
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Wed Feb 19 11:55:46 CET 2014
Am Di 18.02.2014, 23:19:33 schrieb Tadas Slotkus:
> Hello,
>
> I revoked my key and on the public key server it says:
> "*** KEY REVOKED *** [not verified]"
> Why does it say that revocation is not verified?
That probably refers to the point that the keyservers don't do crypto
checks. It means: There is a packet which looks like a key revocation
but it could be forged. If an OpenPGP application downloads the key from
the server then it does a signature check.
Hauke
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