Question About Accumulated Bad Signatures in Public Key

[John W. Moore III]

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Erik Lotspeich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The public key that I use for work has accumulated various "bad
> signatures".  To be honest, I don't know how these signatures got there.
>  Anyway, I can use GPG to "clean" the public key and remove them.
> 
> Public key servers do not seem to scrub or clean public keys.  Is it a
> reasonable thing to delete the public key and re-add it?  This doesn't
> seem to be something that most public keyservers allow or recommend.  Or
> is it normal for bad signatures to accumulate over the years and it is
> to be expected.
> 
> Note that in my case the bad signatures are redundant since there are
> good, valid, signatures in addition to the valid bad ones by those
> individuals.
> 
> I hope that I've explained this clearly.  I've searched on the Internet
> and I haven't seen a definitive answer.

The simple & direct Answer is that anything that gets recorded on
Keyservers _stays_ there forever.  :-\

There is *no* was to delete a Key from the Public Keyservers.

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Friday 24 Jul 2009, 19:36  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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