Keyserver doesn't honour signature removal

[John W. Moore III]

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Dominik George wrote:

> Is it even possible to remove signatures from a key and distribute this
> change? Or am I doing something wrong?

What lands on the Keyservers stays on the Keyservers, forever.  :(

This is due to the sharing/gossip nature of most Keyservers.  There are
2 Keyservers I am aware of which do not share/gossip; Big Lumber & PGP
Global Directory.  Of these 2 _only_ BL prevents anyone but the
Key/Account Owner from 'changing' the listed Key.

Listing Your Key at www.biglumber.com will allow You to display Your Key
exactly as You desire it to appear and folks may be directed to retrieve
it from there via a Comment line or a signature tagline.  I am not aware
of the ability to specify the Big Lumber listing in a 'Preferred
Keyserver' flag.

IMO, the benefits of having One's Key available via auto-retrieval
outweighs the hassle of undesired Signatures and the 'baggage' of
old/revoked UID's.  YMMV

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Sunday 12 Apr 2009, 08:00  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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