Remove public key from keyserver

[Matthias Mansfeld]

On 15 Jan 2018 at 21:23, Stefan Claas wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:00:34 -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> > > How long do we have now those old fashioned key servers  
> > 
> > SKS came out in 2003.  It largely replaced PKS, which was widely
> > considered old and broken.  SKS was Yaron Minsky's Ph.D thesis,
> > wherein he developed some really cutting-edge math to make key sync
> > fast and reliable.
> > 
> > "Old-fashioned" is not the phrase I'd use to describe something
> > considerably newer than GnuPG.
> > 
> > >, and was
> > > there ever been made attempts by the software maintainers to
> > > modernize the code  
> > 
> > It's from 2003.  It doesn't need modernization.
> 
> No? I for one would like to be sure that i am the only person who can
> upload my public key to a key server directory.
> 

could this be implemented in a way that the _upload_ (not the 
spreading between keyservers) requires signing? (unless it is a 
revocation certificate)?

> Example: Bob does some nasty things with Alice her key which she
> don't like, or better said hate. Since there is no key removal
> currently implemented how should she  deal with that?

Or it may be desirable/necessary not to disclose connections between 
specific persons, User IDs etc., thus to remove critical signatures.

Regards
Matthias
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