Hi John, that is, I can add anything I want to my key, but never remove it? Not even signatures?
I understand that I cannot remove keys, but I think any changes that require my secret key would be ok :( ... -nik John W. Moore III schrieb: > Dominik George wrote: > > > Is it even possible to remove signatures from a key and distribute this > > change? Or am I doing something wrong? > > What lands on the Keyservers stays on the Keyservers, forever. :( > > This is due to the sharing/gossip nature of most Keyservers. There are > 2 Keyservers I am aware of which do not share/gossip; Big Lumber & PGP > Global Directory. Of these 2 _only_ BL prevents anyone but the > Key/Account Owner from 'changing' the listed Key. > > Listing Your Key at www.biglumber.com will allow You to display Your Key > exactly as You desire it to appear and folks may be directed to retrieve > it from there via a Comment line or a signature tagline. I am not aware > of the ability to specify the Big Lumber listing in a 'Preferred > Keyserver' flag. > > IMO, the benefits of having One's Key available via auto-retrieval > outweighs the hassle of undesired Signatures and the 'baggage' of > old/revoked UID's. YMMV > > JOHN ;) > Timestamp: Sunday 12 Apr 2009, 08:00 --400 (Eastern Daylight Time) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
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