Google: Deletes a client-side encryption key pair permanently and immediately You can only permanently delete key pairs that have been turned off for more than 30 days To turn off a key pair, use the Disable Cse Key Pair method Gmail can't restore or decrypt any messages that were encrypted by an obliterated key Authenticated users and Google Workspace administrators lose access to reading the encrypted messages For administrators managing identities and keypairs for users in their organization, requests require authorization with a service account (https: developers google com identity protocols O Auth2 Service Account) that has domain-wide delegation authority (https: developers google com identity protocols O Auth2 Service Account#delegatingauthority) to impersonate users with the `https: www googleapis com auth gmail settings basic` scope For users managing their own identities and keypairs, requests require hardware key encryption (https: support google com a answer 14153163) turned on and configured

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Contract 2026-10-27 · Operation google.gmail_users_settings_cse_keypairs_obliterate

Provider route: POST /gmail/v1/users/{userId}/settings/cse/keypairs/{keyPairId}:obliterate. Alter supplies the connection’s credentials and routing.

Call through Alter

Install @alter-ai/sdk @alter-ai/google with npm, or alter-sdk-google with pip. Supply your connected customer’s grant ID and the arguments described below.

import { App } from "@alter-ai/sdk";
import { GoogleIntegration } from "@alter-ai/google";

async function execute(input: Parameters<GoogleIntegration["gmailUsersSettingsCseKeypairs"]["gmailUsersSettingsCseKeypairsObliterate"]>[0]) {
  const app = new App({ apiKey: process.env.ALTER_API_KEY! });
  try {
    const provider = new GoogleIntegration(app, { grantId: process.env.PROVIDER_GRANT_ID! });
    const call = await provider.gmailUsersSettingsCseKeypairs.gmailUsersSettingsCseKeypairsObliterate(input);
    const result = await call.wait();
    return result.bodyJson();
  } finally {
    await app.close();
  }
}

import os
from alter_sdk import App
from alter_sdk_google import GoogleIntegration

async def execute(arguments):
    async with App(api_key=os.environ["ALTER_API_KEY"]) as app:
        provider = GoogleIntegration(app, {"grant_id": os.environ["PROVIDER_GRANT_ID"]})
        call = await provider.gmail_users_settings_cse_keypairs.gmail_users_settings_cse_keypairs_obliterate(arguments)
        result = await call.wait()
        return result.body_json()

Input

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	Additional keys: not allowed
path	object	Required within parent	Additional keys: not allowed
path.keyPairId	string	Required within parent	The identifier of the key pair to obliterate.
path.userId	string	Required within parent	The requester’s primary email address. To indicate the authenticated user, you can use the special value `me`. Default: me
query	object	Optional	Additional keys: not allowed
query.fields	string	Optional	Selector specifying which fields to include in a partial response.
query.prettyPrint	boolean	Optional	Returns response with indentations and line breaks. Default: true
query.quotaUser	string	Optional	Available to use for quota purposes for server-side applications. Can be any arbitrary string assigned to a user, but should not exceed 40 characters.
body	Model	Required within parent	Expand Deletes a client-side encryption key pair permanently and immediately You can only permanently delete key pairs that have been turned off for more than 30 days To turn off a key pair, use the Disable Cse Key Pair method Gmail can’t restore or decrypt any messages that were encrypted by an obliterated key Authenticated users and Google Workspace administrators lose access to reading the encrypted messages For administrators managing identities and keypairs for users in their organization, requests require authorization with a service account (https: developers google com identity protocols O Auth2 Service Account) that has domain-wide delegation authority (https: developers google com identity protocols O Auth2 Service Account#delegatingauthority) to impersonate users with the `https: www googleapis com auth gmail settings basic` scope For users managing their own identities and keypairs, requests require hardware key encryption (https: support google com a answer 14153163) turned on and configured — request body — body

Referenced models: Deletes a client-side encryption key pair permanently and immediately You can only permanently delete key pairs that have been turned off for more than 30 days To turn off a key pair, use the Disable Cse Key Pair method Gmail can’t restore or decrypt any messages that were encrypted by an obliterated key Authenticated users and Google Workspace administrators lose access to reading the encrypted messages For administrators managing identities and keypairs for users in their organization, requests require authorization with a service account (https: developers google com identity protocols O Auth2 Service Account) that has domain-wide delegation authority (https: developers google com identity protocols O Auth2 Service Account#delegatingauthority) to impersonate users with the `https: www googleapis com auth gmail settings basic` scope For users managing their own identities and keypairs, requests require hardware key encryption (https: support google com a answer 14153163) turned on and configured — request body — body

Response

Response media type: application/json. The table describes the pinned successful response. Referenced models link to their complete fields.

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	null	Root

Policy, approvals and errors

SDK function policy ID: google.gmail_users_settings_cse_keypairs_obliterate. Catalog operation: gmail.users.settings.cse.keypairs.obliterate. Rules can name either ID; function rules distinguish managed calls and conservatively cover raw calls sharing the route. Existing grant permissions and policy rules apply. wait() returns an immediate result or waits for a required approval; it never approves the request itself. Persist the approval ID to resume after a restart.

Provider errors retain their response; JSON decoding raises ProviderAPIError for provider failures. ManagedOperationError identifies contract/input/retention errors. See error handling and provider-specific behavior. Sensitive input may be refused before approval storage. A decoding error never resubmits a write.

Required provider scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.settings.basic", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.settings.sharing"]

No-content response statuses: [204]

Official provider source