revocation signatures

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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, David Shaw wrote:

> Currently, there is no binding between a revocation and a signature.
> That is, the revocation could refer to any signature issued by that
> key and dated before the revocation.
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wait a minute..! does that mean that if bob revokes his signature of 
alice's key, then mallory could use ~that~ revocation and revoke bob's 
signature from any key that bob had previously signed key (except for 
bob's key)?


> There is no current way to get the revocation text in a key listing.
> It is only shown when you try to encrypt to the revoked key.
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