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

[Burkhard Lück]

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.

Thanks.

-- 
Burkhard Lück