How to 'un-sign' a key?

Andrew Berg bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com
Fri May 8 08:08:16 CEST 2009


John W. Moore III wrote:
> Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> > Folks,
>
> > I foolishly signed a key I had not verified well, and the signed version
> > is on a keyserver.  How can I unsign it?
>
> Select the Key with the offending Signature and revoke the Signature.
>
> the command is --revsig form the Edit Key prompt.
>
> Promptly disseminate the Key with the Sig Revoked via Key Servers and
> perhaps a direct email to all correspondents.  The 'trick' will be to
> get the Key Owner to re-Import His Key with the [revoked] flag on Your
> Sig.  :-\
I feel silly. I was thinking of something else for some reason and I
read the message too quickly. :-P

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