Question 90
A security and reliability review finds: A developer wants to revoke an exposed GnuPG certificate and communicate the revocation. What consequence is most material?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The main exposure is Leaving a compromised public-key identity active enables continued misuse. Reduce it with Generate or use an appropriate revocation certificate and publish it through the trusted channel, since Revocation informs relying parties that the old key should no longer be trusted.
Incorrect Answers
That danger is associated more closely with A network daemon is not required but systemd starts it through socket activation after service disable. Here the primary exposure is Leaving a compromised public-key identity active enables continued misuse.
It is not the most direct failure mode. The relevant mechanism is Revocation informs relying parties that the old key should no longer be trusted, which risks Leaving a compromised public-key identity active enables continued misuse.
That danger is associated more closely with A user wants to decrypt a GnuPG file received for a different person's key. Here the primary exposure is Leaving a compromised public-key identity active enables continued misuse.