On 6/27/10 4:27 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, David Shaw wrote: > >> On Jun 27, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >>> How difficult would it be to propose some kind of extension flag to >>> the PGP key format that in essence says "don't publish me to a >>> keyserver". Note that I'm asking from a technical point of view, not >>> a social (i.e. making servers support it) or IETF one (insert >>> bikesheds here). >>> >>> My question is: Is it possible to do in such a way that keys would be >>> backward-compatible? >> >> Not only is it possible, it already exists. GnuPG can even set it and >> unset it, as you like. > > Really? Where is it?
I believe it's the "Keyserver no-modify" flag, which is probably already set on your key. It says that only the owner of the key should be able to update or modify the key on the keyserver. > > Also, is it possible for either the manpage or the interactive help to > include the meaning of the various preferences that are not cipher types? > When you're getting that deep into all things OpenPGP, it's probably best just to go straight to the RFCs. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.3.17
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