Comments on: Why Don’t We Clean Up The PGP Key Servers?

By: Tortanick

Tortanick — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:47:12 +0000

Like most PGP users I have at least one unrevoked public key from my early experiments lyeing around, I'd like to see this problem fixed too.

My own suggestion would be to ban keys with infinite expirery dates. 3 years should be the absolute maximum. Any infinite timed keys in existance shall be given 3 years untill expery.

By: Calum

Calum — Tue, 02 May 2006 20:28:30 +0000

Just saw your post on Digg, and yes, I think we've all lost the key (and passphrase) from the time we tried it first in 1998.

pgpkeyserver # rm /var/spool/keys/* -rf pgpkeyserver #

By: Jason Powell

Jason Powell — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:15:24 +0000

I beg your pardon, but I actually do use PGP, daily. So there. Nuh.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:12:52 +0000

Peoples’ comments who don’t use PGP don’t count. ;)

By: Jason Powell

Jason Powell — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:17:25 +0000

I am deeply troubled by the PGP clutter. Seriously, this keep s me up at nights. ;)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:28:19 +0000

I’d be interested in hearing their reasons. I can see why not to allow arbitrary key deletion from users, but they should consider doing a “house cleaning”.

By: Zhasper

Zhasper — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:48:04 +0000

Hear Hear!

By: Darren Chamberlain

Darren Chamberlain — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:10:33 +0000

I think the operators of the keyservers disagree, though. In the past, I spent some time on the gnupg-users list, and every once in a while someone would ask how to delete their old unusable keys, and the keyserver operators would chime in with reasons about why it was a bad idea. I don't remember most of the reasons, but I was never quite convinced.