Dominik George wrote: > due to dome issues, I have pretty many signatures on my key that I don't > want (or need) anymore. I can remove them locally, but when sending the > key to the keyserver afterwards, the changes are just ignored.
That is correct, by design keyservers are merge only. It prevents attacks on the keys stored on keyservers such as removing revocations. > Is it even possible to remove signatures from a key and distribute this > change? Or am I doing something wrong? You can remove any cruft you wish and distribute that key yourself. You just can't use the keyserver networks to do it. Also anyone who refreshes that key from a keyserver will pick up all the pieces you decided needed deleting. -- John P. Clizbe Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net or mailto:pgp-public-k...@gingerbear.net?subject=help Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?" A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"
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