[Enigmail] Hello Engmail

[John Clizbe]

Aleksei Sinjuk wrote:
> Thank you for Engmail application you made. I am a new one in this
> PGP world and could you help me a litle bit. Let me know how can i
> delete my public key from keyserver "pool.sks-keyservers.net"?

Simple answer: Not Possible.

pool.sks-keyservers.net is a random collection of 20 server addresses taken from
a pool of 30-33 well-synchronized servers. For purposes of discussion, it is
easiest to think of the name as addressing all SKS servers.

Even if I attempted to delete a key from my keyserver, it would be replaced the
next time I did a reconciliation with whichever of my SKS peers I connect to at
random. Average time for this to occur: < 1 minute. The same holds true for any
other SKS server.

Your best bet is to generate and import a revocation certificate and send the
revoked key to the keyserver network.

NB: It _IS_ possible to delete keys in a few small use cases, but those servers
do not synchronize with any others so they are of limited value.

-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net  or
     mailto:pgp-public-keys at gingerbear.net?subject=HELP

Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?"
A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"

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