Unrevoke revoked uid
David Shaw
dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Tue Aug 17 22:41:12 CEST 2004
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:32:44PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> * David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com> [2004-08-17 21:25]:
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:04:46PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > >
> > > is it possible to revert a revocation of a UID without simply adding
> > > the same UID again?
> >
> > It depends. If you sent the key with the revoked UID to people or
> > keyservers, then it is harder - you need to re-sign the user ID.
> > If you never sent the key with the revoked UID to anyone, just use
> > delsig to delete the revocation and you're done.
>
> I sent the key to keyservers. Resigning is just what I thought because
> revoking a UID only means revoking the signature of the UID.
>
> But how can I perform resigning? Just selecting a UID and the "sign"
> command didn't work.
Add "--expert".
David
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