Kurt Fitzner wrote: > This isn't GnuPG-related really, but recently downloaded my own public > key from a keyserver and found on it about a billion of those silly PGP > global directory signatures on it. Either someone has been downloading > my key from PGP a whole bunch and then submitting it to keyservers, or > the mainstream keyservers are syncing with PGP's global directory. > > I'm wondering if this is a widespread problem. Have other people > noticed this with their keys? > > I am now very sorry I went throught that email process with PGP. I'm > actually hoping this is a widespread problem so that keyserver operators > will start deleting those stupid signatures. If not, I am stuck with my > key having a billion useless signatures on it. >
If you have gpg 1.4.2 you can edit your key and clean it. You can also set your import and export options to clean these signatures automatically. -- Alphax | /"\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 | X Against HTML email & vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up | / \ _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
