Re: deleting GPG UIDs

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (on Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:55:04PM -0300):
> You cannot. That would allow for very serious attacks against the keyserver
> database by third-parties, so it's not supported.

that makes sense. and i remember reading about this.

> You CAN revoke the UID, though. That will not delete it, but at least people
> should avoid using it because it is marked as revoked.

how? when i do --edit-key and then select the UID with the 'uid'
command, all the options i have (as output by 'help') are:

quit       quit this menu
save       save and quit
help       show this help
fpr        show fingerprint
list       list key and user IDs
uid        select user ID N
key        select secondary key N
check      list signatures
sign       sign the key
lsign      sign the key locally
deluid     delete user ID
delkey     delete a secondary key
delsig     delete signatures
pref       list preferences
showpref   list preferences
trust      change the ownertrust
revsig     revoke signatures
disable    disable a key
enable     enable a key

and revsig produces the following output, but no result:
You have signed these user IDs:
     Martin F. Krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
     MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>
     Martin F. Krafft (MaD dUCK) <madduck@madduck.net>

sorry if i don't understand and have to ask trivial questions...

but while we're at it, could you tell me how to revoke a whole key on
the keyserver?

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