From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 20:33:26 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Key Signing
Message-ID: <199711141219.NAA14497@basement.replay.com>
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Bill Stewart wrote:
> I'm not sure how comfortable I am signing a key which has the
> private keys made public - so I signed it, and revoked it,
> and you're welcome to the signed revocation certificate :-)
> 
> The keyserver says it accepted the certificate, but doesn't
> find it when I query it for the key, but then it did that to me
> earlier today, so I'm not sure if it's there or not.
> (It's the server at http://www.pgp.com/keyserver/pks-lookup.cgi .)
> 
> The KeyID was 0x61C747B1 - 512-bit RSA

The PGP Keyserver could not find the key when accessed from the
PGP web site (Find a Public Key), but when requesting it from
inside PGP 5.0, it retrieved the key, revoking the key on my
secret key ring, in the process.

Necessarily Knott, ME
(Although it _may_ be me, since I have not signed the message...
 Or is it the other way around? This is getting confusing.)