need a little help with manual removing key from server

[anu]

Since the buidin function in enigmail to remove the key from the server is not working for me I tryed it manual.

My adventage is to have still everything, my public key, my private key and the revoke file since creating the key.

I have already the file my@mail.com (0xxxxxxx) rev.asc. I opened it with Editor and pasted it into submit a key here http://pgp.mit.edu/.

Public Key Server -- Add
Key block in add request contained no new
keys, userid's, or signatures.
Your key block contained 1 format errors,
which were treated as if the erroneous elements
hadn't been part of your submission.
The last error was on key 0xxxxxxxx:
Key block corrupt: signature without key

Well, could you tell me please what I have to enter in the filed to get my key deleted from the server?

[jmoore3rd]

If I understand Your Question correctly; You diesre to Remove your Key from a Public Keyserver? Well, it cannot be done. Do to the way the Servers 'Gossip/Share' it is impossible to remove a Key once submitted. The only method is to Revoke the Key and generate another. Be sure to submit the Revoked Key to the Servers so that it is clear that it no longer is valid. Import the Revocation Cert into your Keyring and then re-Send the revoked Key to the Servers. You may also Revoke specific UID's and then do the same thing.

[john]

Since the builtin function in enigmail to remove the key from the server is not working for me I tried it manually.

Umm, last I checked, there's no Remove option in Key Management's Keyserver menu. No reason for there to be either. You can delete a key from your local keyring, bt once it's sent to a keyserver, it's there F-O-R-E-V-E-R. You may revoke it, but there is no such thing as deleting even a signature from a keyserver.

My advantage is to have still everything, my public key, my private key and the revoke file since creating the key.

I have already the file my@mail.com (0xxxxxxx) rev.asc. I opened it with Editor and pasted it into submit a key here http://pgp.mit.edu/.

Well, could you tell me please what I have to enter in the filed to get my key deleted from the server?

There's nothing to enter. It cannot be done. BTW, the key's on a network of public server's - Anyone can find it. Hiding the keyID is a rather silly exercise at this point.

[anu]

Thanks for your answers!

Anyone can find it. Hiding the keyID is a rather silly exercise at this point.

Well, i know that anyone can find it. If he know my e-mail...

Nothing against you! But I never enter any personal infos about me in public because of search engines like google. I don`t like if someone searches for my name to find a lot traces.

If I understand Your Question correctly; You diesre to Remove your Key from a Public Keyserver? Well, it cannot be done. Do to the way the Servers 'Gossip/Share' it is impossible to remove a Key once submitted. The only method is to Revoke the Key and generate another. Be sure to submit the Revoked Key to the Servers so that it is clear that it no longer is valid. Import the Revocation Cert into your Keyring and then re-Send the revoked Key to the Servers. You may also Revoke specific UID's and then do the same thing.

Yeah. I just want to use a new key. So remove a new key and add a new one would be fine.

"Be sure to submit the Revoked Key to the Servers so that it is clear that it no longer is valid. Import the Revocation Cert into your Keyring and then re-Send the revoked Key to the Servers."

How can I do that? Just copy the revoke certificate under my new pgp public key, then manual send to the server?

"You may also Revoke specific UID's and then do the same thing?"
How?