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On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 04:23 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: 
> Yes. Wouldn't having a mechanism to allow userspace to drop keys that 
> have otherwise been imported be a generally useful solution to the issue 
> you have with that?

There are issues removing a key from both the local system(eg. cache,
running apps) and the attestation server (eg. ima-sig template
verification) perspectives.  We would need to address these concerns
before supporting key removal.

Mimi