Keys not trusted

Sat May 10 10:27:02 2003

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On Friday 09 May 2003 19:24, darren chamberlain wrote:
> * Graham <graham.todd at ntlworld.com> [2003-05-09 13:17]:

[keyring maintenance]

> How do you know which keys you don't need?  Do you simply eyeball the
> userids and delete the ones you don't recognize, or is there a more
> efficient way?  I currently have over 300 public keys on my keyring (I
> also have the auto-retrieve option set), and I'm very sure I don't need
> most of those, but how can I tell which ones I actually need?

Yo!

300 keys sounds about right :-)

I have a little script that just presents me with 5 random keys. I then del=
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those where I don't recognize the name (either from mailing lists, or=20
privately) - I do this more or less weekly (sometimes less). It's far from=
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perfect, but I don't want to go through the whole keyring. Of course I=20
occasionally delete a key that is then downloaded again when I read mail, b=
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as those aren't people I know, I don't think this is a problem.=20

cheers
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