deleting signatures from uids

Peter S. May me at psmay.com
Thu Nov 2 21:52:28 CET 2006


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Alex Mauer wrote:
> Is there any reason that the keyserver needs to continue to redistribute
> expired, revoked, or otherwise invalid (e.g. superseded) signatures?
> 
> I can't think of any.

I would think that it's important for keyservers to widely distribute
the revocation certificates of revoked signatures.  If the keyservers
simply omitted revoked signatures from search results, how would a
client know that this uid was revoked?  Stripping data that isn't
particularly useful is a job better left to the client.

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