Silly pgp/gpg revocation certificate. How does one publish one?

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Tue May 18 20:06:38 UTC 2004


Am Di, den 18.05.2004 schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook um 21:48:

> So off I went and made me a new key pair. (I remembered having and old
> one that I didn't want to use anymore, (I'm not sure I've kept the
> private key secure enough) But I extracted said disused key pair from
> archive, and imported it to my new gpg ring so I could issue a
> revocation certificate. The GPG docs warn that ANYBODY can publish one
> so to treat it carefully. But I didn't find an obvious how-to on
> revocation...

The net is full with help:

http://www.nmlug.org/faqs/gen-gpg-key.html

http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html#ss3.7

http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html#q4.17

Alexander


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