messed up a bit

Marcin Gil mgil@vernet.pl
Tue Jun 24 23:02:02 2003


On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:56:23 +0400
Yenot <yenot@sec.to> wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> - From the text above, I can't tell how the second signature appeared.
> My guess is that when you deleted the <mgil : vernet pl> signature,
> you also accidentally deleted your self signature ... and later
> recreated it. (Perhaps you deleted the entire UID and then recreated
> it?) If the signature appeared twice on your local keyring (verses
> only on the keyserver), you merged this newly created signature onto
> a backup (original or/older) version of your key.
> 
> If you have multiple signatures from the same user-id (including self
> signatures), GnuPG will ignore all but the most recent signature when
> performing internal calculations. Redundant signatures aren't
> aesthetically pleasing, but they don't cause problems other than
> confusion.

I was thinking (and tried to) about doing such sequence:
-- edit-key <mgil : bmp>
-- delsig of <mgil : vernet> (which appears)
-- delsig of <mgil : bmp>

Now, will it have requested effect, ie DELETING the unneeded signature

-- 
  Marcin Gil
    email#   mgil : vernet pl | GaduGadu ID# 185057
    JID# dentharg : chrome pl | OpenPGP Key# 0x1C8C4ABE