Unable to issue subkey revocation

Andrew Gallagher andrewg at andrewg.com
Mon May 25 10:51:52 CEST 2026


Would you be willing to post the revoked key here so we can examine it? 
The problem may not be in gnupg.

A
On 25/05/2026 08:51, marqueandreprisal--- via Gnupg-users wrote:
> After the key was revoked looking at it in Open Keychain shows the 
> primary key revoked and the encryption subkey is not listed as revoked 
> showing active. In GnuPG list the subkey shows revoked. After hours of 
> trying it seems like GnuPG is unable to issue a subkey revocation 
> properly because I even tried implicitly specifying the subkey ID.


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