On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 19:25:38 +0100, Michał Górny stated:

>Hello,
>
>I'd like to ask whether it'd be feasible to have an option to generate
>revocation certificate that revokes one (or more?) subkeys rather than
>the whole key.
>
>Our use case involves signing key kept on a server for the purpose of
>automated signatures.  We'd like to keep the secret portion
>of the primary key offline and use a dedicated signing subkey
>on the server.  At the same time, we'd like to be able to quickly
>revoke the subkey if need arises without having to reach for the
>primary key.
>
>I know that currently with a bit of hacking we can store an export
>of the key with subkey revoked, and use that for the purpose.  However,
>I think it would be much more convenient if had an option to generate
>the revocation signature separately.

+1

-- 
Jerry

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