deleting GPG UIDs

2001-06-17 Thread MaD dUCK
hey,
i have my GPG key uploaded to the keyservers. unfortunately, i somehow
messed up, and now i have three UIDs associated with it:

fishbowl:~ gpg --list-keys A8FA196E
pub  1024D/A8FA196E 2001-05-07 MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED]
uidMartin F. Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
uidMartin F. Krafft (MaD dUCK) ...

the last one is unecessary and i would like to delete it...

i can easily do:

fishbowl:~ gpg --yes --edit-key A8FA196E uid 3 deluid save
pub  1024D/A8FA196E  created: 2001-05-07 expires: never  trust: f/u
sub  2048g/E93FAECE  created: 2001-05-07 expires: never 
(1)  Martin F. Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(2). MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED]

and even upload that key with gpg --send-key, but the keyserver
seems to merge the key rather than to overwrite it. there is no option
to revoke a UID and i can't revoke the entire key.

how can i delete the UID on the keyserver's copy of the key such that
gpg --recv-keys doesn't restore the third UID?

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Re: deleting GPG UIDs

2001-06-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh


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Re: deleting GPG UIDs

2001-06-17 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (on Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:55:04PM -0300):
 You cannot. That would allow for very serious attacks against the keyserver
 database by third-parties, so it's not supported.

that makes sense. and i remember reading about this.

 You CAN revoke the UID, though. That will not delete it, but at least people
 should avoid using it because it is marked as revoked.

how? when i do --edit-key and then select the UID with the 'uid'
command, all the options i have (as output by 'help') are:

quit   quit this menu
save   save and quit
help   show this help
fprshow fingerprint
list   list key and user IDs
uidselect user ID N
keyselect secondary key N
check  list signatures
sign   sign the key
lsign  sign the key locally
deluid delete user ID
delkey delete a secondary key
delsig delete signatures
pref   list preferences
showpref   list preferences
trust  change the ownertrust
revsig revoke signatures
disabledisable a key
enable enable a key

and revsig produces the following output, but no result:
You have signed these user IDs:
 Martin F. Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Martin F. Krafft (MaD dUCK) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sorry if i don't understand and have to ask trivial questions...

but while we're at it, could you tell me how to revoke a whole key on
the keyserver?

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Re: deleting GPG UIDs

2001-06-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh


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