---
title: "Delete key"
source_url: https://dev.digicert.com/certcentral-apis/discovery-api/keys/delete-key.html
api_method: POST
api_endpoint: "/apicontroller/v1/key/delete"
api_url: "https://daas.digicert.com/apicontroller/v1/key/delete"
---

**POST** `https://daas.digicert.com/apicontroller/v1/key/delete`

Use this endpoint to permanently delete one or more SSH keys from the scan.

## Example requests and responses

## cURL

```bash
curl --location --request POST 'https://daas.digicert.com/apicontroller/v1/key/delete' \
--header 'X-DC-DEVKEY: {{api_key}}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw 
'{
	"accountId": 5153289,
	"divisionIds": [678010],
	"keyNameList": ["2500c5a5e2524ad63f30e6250538f4c7","3c6d5c995db5c6255ad3788ed2f57a01"]
}'
```

## 200 OK

```json
{
	"error": null,
	"data": "success"
}
```

## Request parameters

<table class="params-table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Req/Opt</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>accountId</td>
<td>required</td>
<td>string</td>
<td>Account ID.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>divisionIds</td>
<td>required</td>
<td>array</td>
<td>User's division IDs.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>keyNameList</td>
<td>required</td>
<td>array</td>
<td>List of one or more strings. Each string is the name of a key to delete.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

## Response parameters

<table class="params-table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>error</td>
<td>object</td>
<td>Includes error codes, if any.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>data</td>
<td>string</td>
<td>Message with information about the request.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>