1994-01-30 - Re: Eliminating userids from a pgp key

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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
To: Sameer <sameer@soda.berkeley.edu>
Message Hash: 84f05ed87b5a106c4b6f9637ae03ad2250e7efb269ef85d9f840a710aa641d1c
Message ID: <9401300705.AA28158@binkley.MIT.EDU>
Reply To: <199401292246.OAA12070@soda.berkeley.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1994-01-30 07:08:40 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 23:08:40 PST

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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 23:08:40 PST
To: Sameer <sameer@soda.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: Eliminating userids from a pgp key
In-Reply-To: <199401292246.OAA12070@soda.berkeley.edu>
Message-ID: <9401300705.AA28158@binkley.MIT.EDU>
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There is currently no easy way to remove userIDs from PGP keys.  There
might be, in the future, some way to generate a "userID revocation"
certificate, as well as a "signature revocation" certificate.

For now, you basically have to inform people to remove the extra
userIDs.  Sorry.

-derek

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