On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:21:30PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le Tue 18/10/2005, David Shaw disait > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:08:07AM +0200, Realos wrote: > > > I am a bit confused about the gnupg behaviour in case of revoking a > > > subkey or uid. Since uids are actually signed by others in combination > > > my public key. > > > > > > Does it mean revoking a subkey or uid rsults in loss of signatures I > > > have collected over the time? How to proceed in such a case? > > > > Revoking a subkey loses nothing (except the subkey). Revoking a user > > ID loses any signatures on that user ID - after all, those people > > signed that user ID, and by revoking it you say that you, the owner, > > does not treat the user ID as valid any longer. If you don't treat it > > as valid, why should anyone else? > > But you can sign the new user Id with the old one saying "yes I'm > the same person, only with a different address".
You're talking about adding a new user ID. The original question was regarding revoking an existing user ID. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
