"Tipping-off" revisited

David Hansen davidh at spidacom.co.uk
Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:46:07 -0000


On 8 Mar 01, at 18:58, Charles Lindsey wrote:

> So if I obtain your key by hacking your computer, and your passphrase
> by peering over your shoulder, and then go around the net
> impersonating you to your great detriment, you will STILL not revoke
> the key?

No. I will revoke my key and say why I have done it.

Brian has come up with a better form of words, which I will be 
incorporating in my signatures shortly.



--
 David Hansen | davidh@spidacom.co.uk  | PGP email preferred
 Edinburgh    | CI$ number 100024,3247 | key number F566DA0E
 If I revoke this key, the only circumstance in which I will not be
 prepared to explain my reasons for doing so will be when UK
 government authorities have stipulated that providing such an
 explantaion would be unlawful