deluid // follow-up

Johan Wevers johanw at vulcan.xs4all.nl
Thu Aug 11 01:35:08 CEST 2005


vedaal at hush.com wrote:

>someone's public key, leave an outdated one,
>and either publicly post the key , or upload that key to a new 
>keyserver that did not have it before,

That's one of the reasons why most keyservers synchronise.

>wouldn't it be better where the deluid could be 'local only/non-exportable'
>for user convenience,

For keyservers, it already is. If you want to make clear that a certain uid
is not in use any more, you'll have to revoke that uid, not delete it from
your local copy.

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