[kde-doc-english] Re: Revocation Certificates??

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2011, um 10:44:28 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:
> > Am Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011, um 20:43:03 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:
> >> Am Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011, 17:15:19 schrieb Burkhard Lück:
> >> > Hi Daniel,
> >> > 
> >> > am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011, um 05:37:32 schrieb Daniel U. Thibault:
> >> > >    GnuPG4Win/Kleopatra prominently warns about creating a revocation
> >> > > 
> >> > > certificate before uploading a key pair to a PGP server.  But there
> >> 
> >> is
> >> 
> >> > > a) no option to do this offered by the wizard and, more importantly,
> >> 
> >> b)
> >> 
> >> > > absolutely no mention of how to do this in the help.  The interface
> >> 
> >> is
> >> 
> >> > > of no help, giving absolutely no hint of how to do this.
> >> > > 
> >> > >    I eventually found guidance at
> >> > > 
> >> > > http://www.emiic.net/reference/57-encrypting-email.  Not obvious at
> >> > > all.
> >> > 
> >> > This is about KGpg, right?
> >> > 
> >> > Your a) seems to be a claim about a missing feature/warning/bug in
> >> 
> >> KGpg,
> >> 
> >> > please report at bugs.kde.org product KGpg.
> >> > 
> >> > Your b) could be solved adding some infos about a revocation
> >> 
> >> certificate
> >> 
> >> > to the KGpg Handbook?
> >> 
> >> Yes, please file a wishlist for KGpg on b.k.o and I'll see to get this
> >> done
> >> for SC 4.8. There currently is no interface to create a revocation
> >> certificate for an existing key. You are however asked if you want to
> >> create one with a new key.
> >> 
> >> I don't think complaining about a revocation certificate on every upload
> >> is
> >> a good idea. But maybe we could do this with a
> >> dont-show-this-dialog-again
> >> thing. Please file a seperate wishlist if you want this implemented and
> >> provide some good arguments to convince me.
> > 
> > KGpg has an action "Revoke Key" in the context menu, which opens the
> > "Create
> > Revocation Certificate" dialog.
> > But the documentation does not mention revocation.
> > 
> > Eike would you mind to add something about revocation to the handbook, we
> > could ship the updated doc with 4.7.1.
> 
> Ups, indeed. Since even I forgot about it how is anyone else supposed to
> know? ;) Yes, I think I'll cook up some text for this. Suggestions
> welcome.
> 
Ping Eike

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Burkhard Lück