delete bad UID from key on keyserver?

John W. Moore III jmoore3rd at bellsouth.net
Fri May 8 21:45:16 CEST 2009


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Anonymous Remailer wrote:

> One of my email accounts is unusable so I deleted the UID from my key
> and uploaded it to the keyserver. That accomplished nothing so now I
> figured out I should of invalidated the UID and then uploaded it. I
> can't do that now because I deleted the UID from my key.
> 
> I have to get rid of this email address from my key or people will
> continue mailing me and I won't get the mails. Is there some way I can
> delete this UID from my key on the keyserver. I figured to try to add
> the identical UID back and then invalidate it and then upload the key
> but before I screwup again I figured to ask here. Thank you.

Ahem........

Refresh Your Key from the Keyserver and then Revoke the UID which You
will have fetched from the Keyserver.  Then Upload the Key with the
Revoked UID on it.  Then Clean Your Key in Your Keyring and be prepared
to repeat having to deluid every time Your Key is either returned to You
signed because the revoked UID will forever remain on the Server.

For this reason many folks prefer to maintain a Listing on Big Lumber or
a Personal Web Page because only that way can You control exactly how
the Key is retrieved by Others.

HTH

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Friday 08 May 2009, 15:44  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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