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Ben v.d. Leeden, at 13:59 +0200 on Thu, 20 Apr 2000, wrote:

> Hi, maybe it is a dumb question, but I saw a few publick keys of mine on a
> keyserver which aren't being used...
>
> I have read the GnuPG manual how to revoke a key (--gen-revoke) but I don't
> have the secret keys anymore.... Is is possible to erase them from the key-
> server ???

Nope, you can't remove them. The simple 'because' is that you can't
verify yourself to the keyserver to tell it you don't want your key on it,
because you don't have access to your key/passphrase.

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Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/

"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:

> [on orphaned keys]
> Nope, you can't remove them. The simple 'because' is that you can't
> verify yourself to the keyserver to tell it you don't want your key on it,
> because you don't have access to your key/passphrase.

that's why i (usually {^) let'm expire a year from now...

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