-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Erik Lotspeich wrote: > Hi, > > The public key that I use for work has accumulated various "bad > signatures". To be honest, I don't know how these signatures got there. > Anyway, I can use GPG to "clean" the public key and remove them. > > Public key servers do not seem to scrub or clean public keys. Is it a > reasonable thing to delete the public key and re-add it? This doesn't > seem to be something that most public keyservers allow or recommend. Or > is it normal for bad signatures to accumulate over the years and it is > to be expected. > > Note that in my case the bad signatures are redundant since there are > good, valid, signatures in addition to the valid bad ones by those > individuals. > > I hope that I've explained this clearly. I've searched on the Internet > and I haven't seen a definitive answer.
The simple & direct Answer is that anything that gets recorded on Keyservers _stays_ there forever. :-\ There is *no* was to delete a Key from the Public Keyservers. JOHN ;) Timestamp: Friday 24 Jul 2009, 19:36 --400 (Eastern Daylight Time) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10-svn5085: (MingW32) Comment: Public Key at: http://tinyurl.com/8cpho Comment: Gossamer Spider Web of Trust: http://www.gswot.org Comment: Personal Web Page: http://tinyurl.com/yzhbhx iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJKakWXAAoJEBCGy9eAtCsPWvAH/3Q4pOZ/6URxQw0gi22+zOUw gwaqDYC/Vu96UoF+DCFV6/ucL4x1YvynnXPwrDBaxNLF5iGXP9Lgbr4CR26uS6t7 VYEhL0w3o+kXPFdqW1k3ZGHNrLiENPr6r9DQ8IlJ1g4l3fCwsABStqjExUS6nxyU kEbpD7zQUc24dbLVsyygdoacFAyBgPP+8SCkmtpFf7K3+sdLTrBvkI5/O/uQH6dx RpvfkK5XlbeRzwTfaVDk3MHuBBDlU1MOz3C1ALQmifNtux83BrwlNpGbjwMPj471 cRfO2oT4cyo18NoXgQ3I66EXZdgwAMPonjptZqwrVGsh7xpvUMGQhn7lp+X5xVE= =HSQ/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
