Remove photos from OpenPGP key in the keyservers

Wed Mar 9 19:47:29 CET 2016

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On 03/08/2016 11:24 AM, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> On 08/03/16 16:08, Anthony Papillion wrote:
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure that, if you just send your modified key to the 
>> keyserver again, it will replace the one that's there.
> 
> You shouldn't think of a PGP key as a single file that is
> overwritten - it's more like a logbook that is progressively
> filled. Your primary key is the first entry, and each "fact" that
> is associated with the primary key (id, certification, subkey,
> photo) gets appended to the bottom. You can upload a new fact to
> the keyservers, including a fact that repudiates a previous fact,
> but it all just gets appended to the log and it's the client's job
> to sort through it and decide what bits are still relevant.

Thank you, Andrew, for the clarification. I suppose I've never thought
of it that way but, as you explained it, it makes sense. So am I
correct in this thinking: if I attach a picture to my key and upload
it to a keyserver then remove the picture and upload that 'version' of
my key to the server, the key on the server STILL HAS my picture and
the clients choose to ignore it at that point?