Re: Proper revocation

2012-03-13 Thread kwadronaut
Big thanks to Daniel who helped me once again by putting me on the right track. On 07/03/12 21:16, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > "editing" a revocation certificate doesn't make much sense, since if you > modify the certificate, you'll invalidate the signature. Better to > think of it as discarding

Re: Proper revocation

2012-03-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/07/2012 04:15 AM, kwadronaut wrote: > I noticed that some tools (i.e. Enigmail) don't give you the option to > specify a revocation reason. I haven't uploaded my revoked key as of yet, > so how should I edit it to specify a reason? If your frontend doesn't give you a feature you want, you

Proper revocation (was: Re: invalid gpg key revocation)

2012-03-07 Thread kwadronaut
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:40:09 -0500, David Shaw wrote: > You can examine the revocation certificate with: > > gpg --export (your key id) | gpg --list-packets > The piece you are interested in will look like this. It's usually the > second packet in an exported key: > > :signature packet: algo 1,