Am Samstag, 30. Juli 2011, 17:33:22 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer: > > Ok, I would commit the following text early next week if there aren't any > better proposals: > > A key pair that has expired can be brought back into an operational state > as long as you have access to the private key and the passphrase. To > reliably render a key unusable you need to revoke it. Revoking is done by > adding a special revokation signature to the key. > > These revokation signature can be created together with the key. In this > case it is stored in a separate file. This file can later be imported into > the keyring and is then attached to the key rendering it unusable. Please > note that to import this signature to the key no password is required. > Therefore you should store this revokation signature in a safe place, > usually one that is different from you key pair. It is a good advise to > use a place that is detached from your computer, either copy it to an > external storage device like an USB stick or print it out. > > If you have not created such a detached revokation on key creation you can > create such a revokation signature at any time choosing Key -> Revoke key > ***, optionally importing it to your keyring immediately. > > *** Currently this item is only available in the context menu. I'll move > this from the context menu to the key menu for 4.7.1. The context menu > should provide shortcuts to the often used items. Revoking a key is > seldomly used (if at all) so it has no reason to be in the context menu at > all. > Hi Eike, sounds ok to me please commit asap + cc kde-doc-english.
Thanks. -- Burkhard L?ck
