On Sunday, August 11, 2013 12:26:04 PM Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 11:27:02AM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote: > > I've had some chatting yesterday about how it's complicate to grasp the > > inner working of GPG. For example would it be possible to remove an old > > email address from my GPG key? How? > > Well, the short answer to this question is that no, it's not possible: like > any good distributed database, GPG keys work in append-only mode. You can > revoke an email by appending a revocation packet, but you cannot remove the > address once it's published. > > Maybe that explains enough about the structure of GPG that a session isn't > needed? :)
First thank you for the reply. That's what I guessed. Second, it would be great, if you'd feel like giving this session. There are still many questions left: - how should I manage my key in a responsible way? - how to work with subkeys? what are subkeys? - how do I find out whether there's a trust path to a given key? - what are all these numbers about? gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 16 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u gpg: depth: 1 valid: 16 signed: 115 trust: 1-, 1q, 1n, 1m, 12f, 0u gpg: depth: 2 valid: 105 signed: 187 trust: 81-, 11q, 0n, 4m, 9f, 0u gpg: depth: 3 valid: 28 signed: 119 trust: 18-, 9q, 0n, 0m, 1f, 0u gpg: next trustdb check due at 2013-10-16 gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1) - what are good habits to maintain my trustdb? I'm sure we'll have more questions! Regards, Thomas - what's monkeysphere? _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
