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#1 2014-09-16 08:55:46
- Demon
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[RESOLVED] Hot to remove superfluous/unneeded selfsigs from my key?
It's about my key on servers (hkp://keys.gnupg.net and hkps://pgp.mit.edu). I've clean the key with `minimize` (using gpg), and upload it again to the servers listed, but when I refresh my key on another machine nothing has changed, in fact, if the key on another machine is clean it will pull all those unneeded selfsigs again.
Is it perhaps because I have "Features: MDC, Keyserver no-modify" on every id of the key?
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#2 2014-09-16 08:59:51
- ghen
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Re: [RESOLVED] Hot to remove superfluous/unneeded selfsigs from my key?
You cleaned/minimized your local copy, but these signature(s) remain valid and present "in the cloud". The PGP keyservers will display all info they have about your key, you cannot remove that.
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#3 2014-09-16 09:03:25
- Demon
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Re: [RESOLVED] Hot to remove superfluous/unneeded selfsigs from my key?
You cleaned/minimized your local copy, but these signature(s) remain valid and present "in the cloud". The PGP keyservers will display all info they have about your key, you cannot remove that.
Oh fu*k... What will happen if I revoke them? I also made new photo ID, can I revoke the old one?
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#4 2014-09-16 09:15:37
- ghen
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Re: [RESOLVED] Hot to remove superfluous/unneeded selfsigs from my key?
Keyservers will show all information they have about your key, including revocations, because they are relevant too.
You can revoke signatures but not erase them from the Internet's memory. :-)
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#5 2014-09-16 09:21:21
- Demon
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Re: [RESOLVED] Hot to remove superfluous/unneeded selfsigs from my key?
Thanks... I'm now thinking about creating a new key. 
I really don't like how the current one looks like.
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#6 2014-09-16 14:54:16
- ghen
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Re: [RESOLVED] Hot to remove superfluous/unneeded selfsigs from my key?
You should not care about excessive signatures.
I could create 100 silly looking PGP keys, sign your new key with them, and publish the result to the keyservers. You will find it ugly, but it does not decrease the "value" of your key.
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