Cannot remove key from key server?

[Zuxy]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:28:09 +0100, Henry Andrew <anhny at wmdata.com> wrote:
> I am trying to remove an old key from MITs key server and i'm not sure
> how to do this and would appreciate some help.

Keys can't be removed from a keyserver.

> Om MITs site they say that you cannot remove a key but you can upload a
> revocation certificate.  Does this mean that I use --gen-revoke for my
> key or do I edit the key first and use the revkey command??

I guess both are OK if you really want to revoke the whole thing right now.

> I tried the second option to revoke a subkey (not really understanding
> what the effect of this will be), then generatde an armoured public key
> and tried to upload that to the server cia their web interface, and the
> key server gave the following fail message:

MIT keyserver doesn't handle keys with multiple subkeys properly. Use
hkp://subkeys.pgp.net instead.

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