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

Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Wed May 19 13:43:46 UTC 2004


On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:06:38PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 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


And remind folks to burn an archival CDROM with all their key data and
or print it out and put it (CDROM/paper) in a safe place off line.


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