Getting rid of old uids from my key...

[Ingo Klöcker]

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[Resending since the first message didn't make it.]

On Tuesday 28 January 2003 20:14, Rob Park wrote:
> My key has a lot of old email addresses attached to it, addresses
> that I no longer have access to. I know that I can edit the key and
> delete them, but if I update the key from the keyservers, all the
> deleted uids come back, even if I send the trimmed key to the
> keyservers first (so the keyservers are consolidating all the UIDs).
>
> Is it possible to remove these extra uids permanently? Or do I just
> have to create a new key?

You can't remove uids since there is no way for the keyserver to tell=20
that it's really you who removed the uids. But you can revoke them.

Regards,
Ingo


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