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Stripping Signatures With Unknown User Id from Public Keys
Hello,

I've imported the following public key and get a very long
gpg -kvv listing:

$ gpg -kvv dd9jn@gnu.org
pub 1024D/57548DCD 1998-07-07 Werner Koch (gnupg sig) <dd9jn@gnu.org>
sig AAFC1FB8 2000-06-18 [User id not found]
sig FF3EAA0B 1998-07-07 [User id not found]
sig 45DCA669 1998-07-11 [User id not found]
sig 8904C8E2 1999-03-12 [User id not found]
rev 2B693EBF 2000-02-07 [User id not found]
sig 6470AB26 2000-03-02 [User id not found]
sig 47BA9357 2000-09-23 [User id not found]
sig A8ED201F 2000-07-13 [User id not found]
rev 3C6F28F1 2000-02-07 [User id not found]
sig DDA9DB76 1999-12-19 [User id not found]
sig 82957B66 2000-07-08 [User id not found]
sig 38FEE6C3 1999-09-10 [User id not found]
sig 207E7199 2000-05-01 [User id not found]
sig 5B0358A2 1999-03-15 [User id not found]
sig D4E58026 2000-02-03 [User id not found]
sig 57548DCD 1998-11-20 Werner Koch (gnupg sig) <dd9jn@gnu.org>
sig 621CC013 1998-07-07 [User id not found]
sig 30702948 1999-12-22 [User id not found]
sig F5143B2A 2000-06-14 [User id not found]
sig ACB58D4F 2000-04-11 [User id not found]
sig 01E59968 1998-07-11 [User id not found]
sig 2BA9DD69 1999-02-26 [User id not found]
sig E40413AA 1999-02-26 [User id not found]
sig A24D8B4E 2000-08-10 [User id not found]
sig 7E3C8EAB 1999-09-10 [User id not found]
sig 7BAA90FA 2000-09-05 [User id not found]
sig 947612B3 1999-11-08 [User id not found]
sig 8C8E9F23 1999-09-09 [User id not found]

How do I get rid of 28 signatures with no use?


I tried without success:

$ gpg --edit-key dd9jn@gnu.org

pub 1024D/57548DCD created: 1998-07-07 expires: 2002-12-29
trust: -/q
(1) Werner Koch (gnupg sig) <dd9jn@gnu.org>

Command> delsig AAFC1FB8
You must select at least one user ID.

Command> delsig 0xAAFC1FB8
You must select at least one user ID.

Command> delsig dd9jn@gnu.org
You must select at least one user ID.


Trying to get more information about the sigs doesn't work:

$ gpg --recv-keys 0xAAFC1FB8
gpg: requesting key AAFC1FB8 from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net ...
gpg: key AAFC1FB8: no valid user IDs
gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: w/o user IDs: 1
$ gpg -kvv 0xAAFC1FB8
gpg: error reading key: public key not found
$


Any idea?


Thanks.
Frank Henkel

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