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authorWerner Koch <[email protected]>2020-08-27 10:50:33 +0000
committerWerner Koch <[email protected]>2020-08-27 10:50:33 +0000
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parentscd: New option to APDU command to return the ATR as data. (diff)
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doc: Add a remark about keyservers.
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diff --git a/doc/gpg.texi b/doc/gpg.texi
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@@ -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