Re: supersede key on key-server

2011-08-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:44, mike_ac...@charter.net said: result of a search... it would need to first search for the key by whatever search text was provided, and then search for hits on the fingerprint... if there is a revoke cert then you want to return that. Keyservers store one copy of a

supersede key on key-server

2011-08-22 Thread Mike Acker
some of us use more than one email address. with GPG it is simple to add a secondary ID to a key and this seems to work quite well. when a change like this is made it is desirable to update the keyserver. what happens when you re-upload a key to the keyserver? I hate to think the keyserver

Re: supersede key on key-server

2011-08-22 Thread Jonathan Ely
I was wondering something similar. I have a few keys which I have invalidated and disabled but there is no way to delete them. I am using this new key which I have not uploaded because if something happens and I must re-create the key that will too become just clutter on the server. On 22/08/2011

Re: supersede key on key-server

2011-08-22 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 23/08/11 12:39 AM, Mike Acker wrote: some of us use more than one email address. with GPG it is simple to add a secondary ID to a key and this seems to work quite well. when a change like this is made it is desirable to update the keyserver. what happens when you re-upload a key to the