-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dirk Traulsen wrote: > Am 29 Oct 2005 um 2:25 hat Henry Hertz Hobbit geschrieben: > > >>On 27 Oct 2005 Dirk Traulsen wrote: >> > > ----snip---- > >>>So here is my feature request: Please make an option to delete >>>signatures, for which there is no corresponding signing key on >>>the local keyring. > > ----snip---- > >>I hope I am misunderstanding this. I think I am. >> >>I have a little bit of a problem with this. First, I am NOT part > > of > >>the WOT and never will be (look at my name and you will see why). >>Second, I have precious few public keys on my key ring, and Werner > > is > >>one of them. You should all of those pretty "[User ID not found]" >>after all of those sigs. Thank goodness I am NOT part of the WOT. > > If > >>I was (part of the WOT) and cleaned out all of those signatures on > > his > >>key, signed it, and uploaded it to one of the keyservers so it >>reflected he had another signee, what would happen to the ones that >>were cleaned out? I am sure that most if not all of them are >>legitimate signatures. >> >>Like I said, I am pretty sure I am misunderstanding what you are >>doing. > > > Yes, you do! > This does not effect the keys on the keyservers! The keyservers > always only add or merge the keys they are sent. This means, if there > is already a key with that ID, they take the sent key apart and add > the new parts (if there are any). 'clean total' would have absolutely > no effect on the keyservers or the WoT. > > The proposal is about all those [User ID not found] in the keys in > your LOCAL keyring. My proposal would only have an effect on the > keyringsize on your storage media. > Even in my really small keyring, there are several thousand of unused > signatures. Can you imaging the effect on local keyrings with > hundreds of keys? Because you don't have the corresponding signing > key in your local keyring, gpg cannot verify them, so these > signatures are not useful for you. (With the exception, that you have > a visual hint that there are more signatures on the keyservers.) >
I have a keyring with 1600 keys on it which has a physical size of almost 30MB. I would appreciate this feature very much. - -- Alphax | /"\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 | X Against HTML email & vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up | / \ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBQ2R1fbMAAH8MeUlWAQh57Qf+Oo50sxbj/lqTXbEW2BjuIsTyluRUpp3k xNlH9NVELW4cStE3nKowbGkG29KytYotaERGzi3hn0O6l2ZyXnaiPmfEaT0ZIA9v xC2XUfCrgueSXrTufB8oDtj2YS8qrWvwkOcgkdPJQTaK+yorpWtwJOHVkHN1V+E1 xwGnTzJC5HQa86CF8PsHAAmtnPsEe/q0tRsSel6/RzGCUhfBR7sOC4oTgRtypgn9 6eeVUBolrZe+bP/s9FR6YrxPo5T7Up/bVQkna6fglclWYAa+q07enw79jli4/20U ghzMgcd5rIwPm0xg8tkqw41h/YYPZTqcj66UE+y0v6DjnNr2etnq4g== =rkns -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
