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Re: [openpgp] email death certificates

2019-08-27 19:29:40

Jon Callas <joncallas(_at_)icloud(_dot_)com> wrote:
    >> On Aug 23, 2019, at 11:05 AM, Michael Richardson 
<mcr+ietf(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)(_dot_)ca> wrote:
    >> 
    >> Has anyone given any thought to this?
    >> 
    >> I suppose it might also apply to "does not work here anymore"

    > Yes, as others have said, designated revokers and reason-for-revocation
    > are part of this, as would be even human-readable notations.  

    > In PGP, we had key-splitting and those one could with that product
    > key-split a revoker key. It was an obvious use case for us, even.

The designated revoker seems to require advance planning, as does the
key-splitting.   People rarely do advance planing on accidential death, nor
on getting fired.

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