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LANCE W. HAVERKAMP WROTE:
> IS THERE A WAY TO STRIP CERTAIN SIGNATURES FROM A KEYRING, NOT JUST ONE
> KEY? SUCH AS STRIPPING OUT ALL INSTANCES OF THE PGP GLOBAL SIGNATURE
> FROM ALL KEYS ON A RING?
YOU CAN'T SPECIFY WHICH ONES TO DELETE FOR THE ENTIRE KEYRING, BUT YOU CAN USE
THE IMPORT-CLEAN OPTION TO STRIP AT LEAST THOSE SIGNATURES. IT WILL ALSO CLEAN
OTHER SIGNATURES IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CORRESPONDING PUBLIC KEY ALREADY ON YOUR
KEYRING.
TRY:
CD ~/.GNUPG
GPG --DELETE-KEY 0XCA57AD7C # DELETE PGP GLOBAL DIRECTORY KEY
CP PUBRING.GPG PUBRING.IMP
GPG --IMPORT-OPTIONS IMPORT-LOCAL-SIGS IMPORT-CLEAN
--IMPORT PUBRING.IMP
RM PUBRING.IMP
DELETING THE PGP GLOBAL DIRECTORY KEY (0XCA57AD7C) PRIOR TO MAKING THE COPY AND
IMPORTING WITH IMPORT-CLEAN WILL CAUSE ALL THE KEY'S SIGNATURES TO BE REMOVED.
IF YOU LEAVE THE KEY ON YOUR KEYRING, IMPORT-CLEAN WILL CONDENSE ALL THE PGP
GLOBAL DIRECTORY SIGNATURES TO JUST THE MOST RECENT.
YOU WILL WANT TO INCLUDE THE ABOVE IMPORT-OPTIONS IN GPG.CONF AS WELL AS
SPECIFYING THOSE OPTIONS FOR KEYSERVER-OPTIONS, OTHERWISE THE NEXT TIME A KEY IS
REFRESHED IT WILL RETURN TO ITS LARGER SIZE.
RELEVANT SECTION FROM THE MAN PAGE:
--IMPORT-OPTIONS PARAMETERS
THIS IS A SPACE OR COMMA DELIMITED STRING THAT GIVES OPTIONS
FOR IMPORTING KEYS. OPTIONS CAN BE PREPENDED WITH A `NO-' TO
GIVE THE OPPOSITE MEANING. THE OPTIONS ARE:
IMPORT-LOCAL-SIGS
ALLOW IMPORTING KEY SIGNATURES MARKED AS "LOCAL".
THIS IS NOT GENERALLY USEFUL UNLESS A SHARED
KEYRING SCHEME IS BEING USED. DEFAULTS TO NO.
REPAIR-PKS-SUBKEY-BUG
DURING IMPORT, ATTEMPT TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE CAUSED
BY THE PKS KEYSERVER BUG (PRE VERSION 0.9.6) THAT
MANGLES KEYS WITH MULTIPLE SUBKEYS. NOTE THAT THIS
CANNOT COMPLETELY REPAIR THE DAMAGED KEY AS SOME
CRUCIAL DATA IS REMOVED BY THE KEYSERVER, BUT IT
DOES AT LEAST GIVE YOU BACK ONE SUBKEY. DEFAULTS
TO NO FOR REGULAR --IMPORT AND TO YES FOR KEYSERVER
--RECV-KEYS.
MERGE-ONLY
DURING IMPORT, ALLOW KEY UPDATES TO EXISTING KEYS,
BUT DO NOT ALLOW ANY NEW KEYS TO BE IMPORTED.
DEFAULTS TO NO.
IMPORT-CLEAN
AFTER IMPORT, COMPACT (REMOVE ALL SIGNATURES EXCEPT
THE SELF-SIGNATURE) ANY USER IDS FROM THE NEW KEY
THAT ARE NOT USABLE. THEN, REMOVE ANY SIGNATURES
FROM THE NEW KEY THAT ARE NOT USABLE. THIS
INCLUDES SIGNATURES THAT WERE ISSUED BY KEYS THAT
ARE NOT PRESENT ON THE KEYRING. THIS OPTION IS THE
SAME AS RUNNING THE --EDIT-KEY COMMAND "CLEAN"
AFTER IMPORT. DEFAULTS TO NO.
IMPORT-MINIMAL
IMPORT THE SMALLEST KEY POSSIBLE. THIS REMOVES ALL
SIGNATURES EXCEPT THE MOST RECENT SELF-SIGNATURE ON
EACH USER ID. THIS OPTION IS THE SAME AS RUNNING
THE --EDIT-KEY COMMAND "MINIMIZE" AFTER IMPORT.
DEFAULTS TO NO.
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JOHN P. CLIZBE INET: JOHN (A) MOZILLA-ENIGMAIL.ORG
YOU CAN'T SPELL FIASCO WITHOUT SCO. PGP/GPG KEYID: 0X608D2A10/0X18BB373A
"WHAT'S THE KEY TO SUCCESS?" / "TWO WORDS: GOOD DECISIONS."
"WHAT'S THE KEY TO GOOD DECISIONS?" / "ONE WORD: EXPERIENCE."
"HOW DO I GET EXPERIENCE?" / "TWO WORDS: BAD DECISIONS."
"JUST HOW DO THE RESIDENTS OF HAIKU, HAWAI'I HOLD CONVERSATIONS?"
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COMMENT: WHEN CRYPTOGRAPHY IS OUTLAWED, B25SESBVDXRSYXDZIHDPBGWGDXNLIG
COMMENT: BE PART OF THE £33T ECHELON -- USE STRONG ENCRYPTION.
COMMENT: IT'S YOUR RIGHT - FOR THE TIME BEING.
COMMENT: USING GNUPG WITH MOZILLA - HTTP://ENIGMAIL.MOZDEV.ORG
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