Re: Subkey revocation means losing signatures?

2005-10-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:46:23 +0200, Realos said: I also thought of using the free-form UID for collecting signatures and the using it to sign my new UID. Please consider that many folks run an email challenge response for each user ID they are going to sign. Thus, you won't get a signature

Re: Subkey revocation means losing signatures?

2005-10-19 Thread Realos
hi, yes adding a new one and revoking the old one. The original question was about modifyuing the uid. I think I got the point. Deleting a UID results in loss of signatures while revkong a UID doesn't if it signs the new UID prior to being deleted. What about creating an empty uid, i.e.

Subkey revocation means losing signatures?

2005-10-18 Thread Realos
I am a bit confused about the gnupg behaviour in case of revoking a subkey or uid. Since uids are actually signed by others in combination my public key. Does it mean revoking a subkey or uid rsults in loss of signatures I have collected over the time? How to proceed in such a case? -- Luqman

Re: Subkey revocation means losing signatures?

2005-10-18 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:08:07AM +0200, Realos wrote: I am a bit confused about the gnupg behaviour in case of revoking a subkey or uid. Since uids are actually signed by others in combination my public key. Does it mean revoking a subkey or uid rsults in loss of signatures I have

Re: Subkey revocation means losing signatures?

2005-10-18 Thread Erwan David
Le Tue 18/10/2005, David Shaw disait On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:08:07AM +0200, Realos wrote: I am a bit confused about the gnupg behaviour in case of revoking a subkey or uid. Since uids are actually signed by others in combination my public key. Does it mean revoking a subkey or uid

Re: Subkey revocation means losing signatures?

2005-10-18 Thread Erwan David
Le Tue 18/10/2005, Erwan David disait Le Tue 18/10/2005, David Shaw disait On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:21:30PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: But you can sign the new user Id with the old one saying yes I'm the same person, only with a different address. You're talking about adding a