hi Allie,

NL>> more badly You cannot revoke a UID but only the self signature
NL>> on it (which may or may not prevent users from encrypting to
NL>> this UID)

> Encrypting to the UID? What do you mean by this?

that sure was unclear: I meant using this UID to find the appropriate
key to encrypt for a given e-mail address (which corresponds to that
UID)

e.g. when I have two keys in my keyring with each of them bearing a
particular e-mail address, then it's hard to tell, which one a
front-end will choose to use... there may be different strategies
(using the newer UID by date, checking the self-signature or not, ask
the user, ...)

> I'm thinking of revoking the key on the keyservers and continue to
> distribute it through a URL link with all messages that I sign.

as Dierk Haasis already mentioned: don't do this! anyone who
synchronizes with the keyservers cannot use Your key anymore...

-- 
kind regards, Shalom
NOrbert
using TB 1.61


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