Keyserver doesn't honour removed signatures

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 18:26:29 CEST 2009


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Werner Koch escribió:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:27, nik at naturalnet.de said:
> 
>> Is it even possible to remove signatures from a key and distribute this
>> change? Or am I doing something wrong?
...
> What you can do is to revoke a signature, which is technically yet
> another signature.  But that is in general not helpful in any way.

  By the way, you can also revoke UIDs, but not delete them. So if you
have a key with a nickname, and you add your real name, there is no way
to go back to anonymity anymore, once you have uploaded your key to a
keyserver. That means you need to be careful, but other than that, is
not a big problem.

  My advice is you should not care about having too many signatures,
just focus in no losing the ones you want to have, and keyservers are
perfect for that. Each person is free to "clean" their copy of your
public key, including you.

  Best Regards


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