Revoked keys on keyservers

[David Shaw]

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:33:16PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:

> > I also have a couple of keys that are still active, but I don't use
> > them; they were for testing. Unfortunately, I never generated
> > revocation certs for these keys, and I no longer have the secret keys.
> > Is there anyway to remove these keys from the servers? In the future,
> > I'll make off-site backups and revoke certs ASAP... even when playing
> > around.=20
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> Removing stuff from the servers is not usually possibly.  Anyway, if you
> no longer have the secret keys, nor revocation certificates, how can you
> prove that they are _yours_?

A while ago there was some brief discussion on the keyserver manager
list about the idea of aging keys off of the keyservers.  Basically,
any key that didn't get refreshed after a few years would just get
dropped from the server.  The rationale was that it was the
responsibility of the key owner to keep the key out there, and if they
didn't then the server could save the space.

It does have the nice feature that all those keys that can't get
revoked would eventually go away.

As far as I recall, the idea was never implemented.

David

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