Me stupid: lost password for gpg

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 21:23 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:

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> See I thought, hmm this is going to be an important password letts think 
> up a new one (mistake!), used it a couple of times then didn't use it 
> for a few months and now BUMMER!

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> Now I've already submitted my gpg key to: pgp.mit.edu.
> I could ofcourse just nuke my current .gpg dir and start from scratch 
> since not many people have my public key already, but then my old key 
> would still be registered at pgp.mit.edu .

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> I'm already quite embaressed about this as it is, so no that is SO 
> stupid replies please.

  I feel your pain.  Once upon a time, I had three PGP 2.6.2 keys, but I
had only submitted one to pgp.mit.edu.  I wanted to revoke it, so I
revoked it in my local keychain, and extracted *the WRONG key* and
submitted it to pgp.mit.edu.  As luck would have it, it was the one out
of the three keys whose password I had long forgotten due to lack of
use.

  *sigh*

  Maybe the new dual Opteron box I just ordered can crack the passwords
for both our keys. ;-)

  I would *love* to find a way to remove my key from pgp.mit.edu as
well.  Any help to Hans would be appreciated over here as well.
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-Paul Iadonisi
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