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

[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.

Eike