Re: [Sks-devel] How to delete single keys from the SKS keyserver

2008-06-04 Thread Yaron Minsky
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Patrick Rother [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. You can use the sks drop command with a key hash as a parameter. You'll need to have a running SKS server. Althouhg having read sks help, sks --help and the man page at least two times each, I really

Re: [Sks-devel] How to delete single keys from the SKS keyserver

2008-06-04 Thread David Young
This brings up a good point. How does one permanently drop a key across all SKS servers? I didn't realize that a drop does not permanently remove a key. It sort of defeats the purpose of a drop since the SKS servers are sync'ing every few seconds. The key will reappear within minutes won't it?

[Sks-devel] Re: How to delete single keys from the SKS keyserver

2008-06-04 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Young wrote, On 06/04/2008 04:01 PM: This brings up a good point. How does one permanently drop a key across all SKS servers? Long story short, you don't. Such a feature would actually reduce the security of the overall network, as

Re: [Sks-devel] Re: SKS server shutting itself down

2008-06-04 Thread David Young
OK, looks like rebuilding PTree worked. I just wished setting debug level to 10 would've generated this information. Something like, Ptree corrupted, please rebuild. would've been nice. Thanks for those who responded. David On 6/3/08, Kristian Fiskerstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: