From b5de213efe77b08cd4dbc50bcacd4eb953abb0ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Werner Koch Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:50:33 +0200 Subject: doc: Add a remark about keyservers. -- --- doc/gpg.texi | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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 -- cgit v1.2.3