Hi, I'm almost certain that this is a FAQ but my GoogleFu fails me today so I turn to the mailing list.
After a reinstall some weeks ago today I "needed" my GPG key again, and to my horror I forgot to copy it over. Luckily I found an old backup of my ~/.gnupg and all seemed well after a cleanup of the trust db etc. However I also wanted to "clean up" my key. It was published on a keyserver a long while ago (2001) when me and a few friends where toying around with PGP; I've since used GnuPG once in a while but they stopped using it, and aren't interested in the web of trust anymore. On the keyservers, there are therefore lots of signatures on my key from others that a) are really not useful anymore or b) that I have never even met (how did those get there!). Fortunately it looks like I can delete those signatures locally with --edit-key and then using 'delsig'. However I cannot get the keyservers to accept the new key without the useless signatures; they only seem to add new ones (as is evident from the multiple self-signatures now present). In a way I can see why; removing signatures from uids seems like it should require a passphrase, however it doesn't work that way. I've also read that it's nearly impossible to remove a key from the keyservers, however that's also not what I want to do, just update it. Am I running into a limitation of the public key server architecture? If so I guess I'll have to live with the crufty signatures, but if not, what am I doing wrong? Regards, --Stijn _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
