Removing an ID from a key

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:36:28 +0200, Daniel CHAN said:

> The problem is when I download my key from this server again, the deleted ID
> is still there !

Use the "revsig" command to revoke your self-signature for that user
ID and send this to the keyserver. In general it is not possible to
delete objects from a keyring - the correct way is to use the
revocation mechanism.

Ah yes, it seems that some keyservers have problems with revocations.

  Werner

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