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**Contact:** [Mailinglist](https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/openkeychain)
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or on IRC (Valodim in [#openkeychain at
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irc.freenode.net](https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/openkeychain))
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## Revocation Certificates
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**Brief explanation:** Revocation certificates are used to revoke a key
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even if the secret key is no longer accessible (either the actual key has
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been lost or its password forgotten), and is usually the last recourse in
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such cases. This task would involve allowing OpenKeychain to both generate
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and use revocation certificates.
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The two components:
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1. Creation: Allowing users to create a revocation certificate for a given key
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from within OpenKeychain (this would involve saving the revoked public key).
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2. Application: Revocation certificates come in two forms - as a revoked public key,
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and much less frequently, as a detached revocation signature. In the case of
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the latter the certificate must first be applied to the correct public key before
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proceeding. In either case, the revoked key must be uploaded to keyservers to
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complete the revocation process. The revocation and upload should be atomic.
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This is a smaller task which we expect to take only one or two weeks, which
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makes it suitable as a secondary goal and providing a change of pace for some
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time while working on another task.
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**Expected results:** Support for detached signatures in the Encrypt/Decrypt
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dialog.
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**Priority:** low
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**Knowledge Prerequisite:** Java programming
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**Skill level:** low
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**Mentor:** Vincent Breitmoser
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**Contact:** [Mailinglist](https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/openkeychain)
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or on IRC (Valodim in [#openkeychain at
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irc.freenode.net](https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/openkeychain))
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