[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#514623: Cannot use revoked subkeys for decription using a smart card

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:04, enrico at debian.org said:

> revocation.  Here's a simple use case for revocation without
> compromission: I revoke a 1024b subkey because I've switched to a 4096b

As well as a bunch of other reasons.  Gpg even offers some standard
choices:

  0 = No reason specified
  1 = Key has been compromised
  2 = Key is superseded
  3 = Key is no longer used

Reasons 2 or 3 are Enrico's case, reason 0 is commonly used for
revocations created along with the key (usually means: I lost my
passphrase ;-).

> Why shouldn't I be allowed to use it to read my own old encrypted data,
> maybe (here's another quite legitimate use case) in order to reencrypt

You should be abale to do this.  This seems to be a bug in GnuPG.  If
you hurry and copy your report to bugs.gnupg.org, you will GnuPG bug
#1000 assigned ;-).  


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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