Re: Removing old preferences from exported key

2014-04-08 Thread Sam Gleske
There is also the clean command which cleans up old self sigs (among other things like unusable sigs, e.g. expired signatures). On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Johan Wevers joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nlwrote: On 07-04-2014 15:16, David Shaw wrote: When you change preferences you add another

Re: Removing old preferences from exported key

2014-04-08 Thread David Shaw
On Apr 8, 2014, at 1:48 AM, Johan Wevers joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl wrote: On 07-04-2014 15:16, David Shaw wrote: When you change preferences you add another selfsig for your user ID that contains the new preferences. If you want to make the old preferences go away completely, you can

Re: Removing old preferences from exported key

2014-04-08 Thread Johan Wevers
On 08-04-2014 20:21, David Shaw wrote: However, is there a way to remove it from the exported key only - to keep the size of the exported key as small as possible? The export options didn't do that as list-packets showed. Sure: --export-options export-clean Thanks, that worked. --

Removing old preferences from exported key

2014-04-07 Thread Johan Wevers
Hallo, I changed the preferences for my gpg key to add the new Camelia ciphers and move IDEA more backward as I got problems with people with old pgp keys using old gnupg versions claiming they supported it but actually didn't support it. However, when I export the key it now contains both

Re: Removing old preferences from exported key

2014-04-07 Thread David Shaw
On Apr 7, 2014, at 2:06 AM, Johan Wevers joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl wrote: Hallo, I changed the preferences for my gpg key to add the new Camelia ciphers and move IDEA more backward as I got problems with people with old pgp keys using old gnupg versions claiming they supported it but actually

Re: Removing old preferences from exported key

2014-04-07 Thread Johan Wevers
On 07-04-2014 15:16, David Shaw wrote: When you change preferences you add another selfsig for your user ID that contains the new preferences. If you want to make the old preferences go away completely, you can simply delete the old selfsig via delsig Yers, that removes it completely from