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| author | Werner Koch <[email protected]> | 2020-08-27 10:50:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Werner Koch <[email protected]> | 2020-08-27 10:51:12 +0000 |
| commit | b5de213efe77b08cd4dbc50bcacd4eb953abb0ed (patch) | |
| tree | 45b7e5ed3ba9e02a2512fab7e2db6e29116d610d | |
| parent | dirmngr: Print the last alert message returned by NTBTLS. (diff) | |
| download | gnupg-b5de213efe77b08cd4dbc50bcacd4eb953abb0ed.tar.gz gnupg-b5de213efe77b08cd4dbc50bcacd4eb953abb0ed.zip | |
doc: Add a remark about keyservers.
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diff --git a/doc/gpg.texi b/doc/gpg.texi index 72e440391..526a758b5 100644 --- a/doc/gpg.texi +++ b/doc/gpg.texi @@ -453,6 +453,11 @@ Don't send your complete keyring to a keyserver --- select only those keys which are new or changed by you. If no @var{keyIDs} are given, @command{@gpgname} does nothing. +Take care: Keyservers are by design write only systems and thus it is +not possible to ever delete keys once they have been send to a +keyserver. + + @item --export-secret-keys @itemx --export-secret-subkeys @opindex export-secret-keys |