On 10/31/2006 02:58 PM, Stijn Hoop wrote:
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In a way I can see why; removing signatures from uids seems like it
should require a passphrase, however it doesn't work that way. I've
also read that it's nearly impossible to remove a key from the
keyservers, however that's also not what I
Qed wrote:
This is not a limitation, it'a a feature :-) and this is also the reason
why you should not play with PGP on keyservers, the result will be often
another abandoned key.
Is there any reason that the keyserver needs to continue to redistribute
expired, revoked, or otherwise invalid
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Alex Mauer wrote:
Is there any reason that the keyserver needs to continue to redistribute
expired, revoked, or otherwise invalid (e.g. superseded) signatures?
I can't think of any.
I would think that it's important for keyservers to widely
Peter S. May wrote:
I would think that it's important for keyservers to widely distribute
the revocation certificates of revoked signatures.
Agreed. But it's not important to distribute signatures that have been
revoked.
If the keyservers
simply omitted revoked signatures from search
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Alex L. Mauer wrote:
Peter S. May wrote:
I would think that it's important for keyservers to widely distribute
the revocation certificates of revoked signatures.
Agreed. But it's not important to distribute signatures that have been
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Peter S. May wrote:
Again, such is true for the uids themselves. But revocations for uids
that the client doesn't have might or might not be considered
superfluous. Perhaps we find a revocation for a uid we don't have yet
on one keyserver and
Hi,
I'm almost certain that this is a FAQ but my GoogleFu fails me today so
I turn to the mailing list.
After a reinstall some weeks ago today I needed my GPG key again, and
to my horror I forgot to copy it over. Luckily I found an old backup
of my ~/.gnupg and all seemed well after a cleanup of
Hi,
Stijn Hoop schrieb:
On the keyservers, there are therefore lots of signatures on my key
from others that a) are really not useful anymore or b) that I have
never even met (how did those get there!). Fortunately it looks like
I can delete those signatures locally with --edit-key and then
Stijn Hoop wrote:
'delsig'. However I cannot get the keyservers to accept the new key
without the useless signatures; they only seem to add new ones (as
is evident from the multiple self-signatures now present).
Yes, keyservers will merge new signatures with the key but wil not delete
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- --- Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Am I running into a limitation of the public key
server architecture?
Yes. Just publish it yourself on a free website.
I've done it myself about the simplest way available here:
geocities (dot)
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