deleting signatures

Ramon Loureiro ramon.loureiro at upf.edu
Thu Oct 30 19:59:35 CET 2008


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John W. Moore III wrote:
> Ramon Loureiro wrote:
>
>> 1.- How can I tell "delete MY sig on  keyID "
>
> In GPGshell; highlight the Key then Rt. click and choose 'Edit' >>
> 'All Settings' then simply type:
>
> delsig <ENTER>
>
> You will then need to answer y/N Questions through the list of
> existing Sigs until You arrive at the Signature You wish to delete.
> Then You answer 'y' instead of the 'N' You've been responding with.
>
that's what I wanted to avoid! Imagine a list with 150 signatures! ;-)
I expect to find something like:

delsig 0x80C7D647
>> 2.- Why the system offers me the chance of deleting the other
> signatures?
>
> You can delete other signatures from the Key existing on Your
> Keyring but it won't affect the Key on the Servers or "in the
> wild".  Many folks do this to keep their Keyrings as small as
> possible.  The same thing can be done by running the --minimize
> command on any Key and stripping it of everything *except*
> Self-Sigs.  Very small Keyrings are helpful when using them on a
> thumb drive where space may be limited.
Very useful tip!
cheers!
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Ramon Loureiro
GPG BE8E 5136 6A32 B5EF 0105 0DFB C559 2ACB 80C7 D647
Thawte Notary
Gossamer Web of Trust http://www.gswot.org
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