Thank you so much Dianne and Others for your quick and strong response. I don't know whether any of you did not get the point that "I know it was my mistake, to lose the keystore file". No doubt on that :)
Anyways, as you all said, I have put my new keystore in my git repo. "Fall back" Regards, Saurav Mukherjee. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Raphael P.F. <raphaelpfmontan...@gmail.com>wrote: > Actually, you should have a fall back plan. It's easy to backup your key. > > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Saurav <to.saurav.mukher...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thanks Mark. >> You have always helped me out, now and in the past! >> I know that the encryption is irreversible, wanted to know if there is a >> workaround for upgrading! >> >> Could someone convey this to Google, that, loosing a keystore is >> possible, highly STUPID, but possible. >> They should have a fall back plan! To upgrade the application, with >> another keystore or some other secure procedure. Just a thought! >> >> I am left at the mercy of my downloaders, to shift to the new >> application, as I need to put my upgraded application as a new application. >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> Saurav Mukherjee. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Raghav Sood <raghavs...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Digital signatures are based upon public-key cryptography. You cannot >>>> recover a private key given a public key -- that's the whole point of >>>> public-key crypto. Such algorithms are based on one-way functions: >>>> things that are easy to do but hard to reverse. >>>> >>> >>> This is enough. I know what public key encryption is and how it works, I >>> just didn't know that it was used in this case. This clarifies my question. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> -- >>> Raghav Sood >>> Please do not email private questions to me as I do not have time to >>> answer them. Instead, post them to public forums where others and I can >>> answer and benefit from them. >>> http://www.appaholics.in/ - Founder >>> http://www.apress.com/9781430239451 - Author >>> +91 81 303 77248 >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Android Developers" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > > > > -- > Raphael > http://blog.rmontanaro.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
