-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19/01/2013 17:02, Ludwig Hgelsch￤fer wrote: [] > This is quite easy. Make sure that you have your old public key in > your public keyring, e.g. by retrieving it from a keyserver. > > Then import your revocation certificate (OpenPGP -> Keymanagement. > Then File -> Import Keys from File -> Select your revocation > certificate. > > The revocation certificate is merged into your public key by adding > a certain signature packet, marking it as revoked. > > If your public key was on a keyserver, please upload it. The > revocation signature is then merged to your key on the server, > marking it as revoked. Everybody trying to download it will see > that it is revoked. Everybody who is refreshing their public > keyring will then import the revocation certificate. > >> Moreover some people may have my previous key, how can I reliably >> make sure that they don't use it anymore?
Ouch, I guess I lost also my revocation certificate (I thought I had it)... that was a bad move. I found this page where it is explained how to handle my situation: http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pgp-faq/pgp-faq-key-revocation.html it shouldn't have happened in the first place but I guess I should live with this. Likely the key is not widely used. Since losing the private key doesn't seem very infrequent I guess that exporting it to a file and back it up somewhere in a safe place should be recommendable. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ/QIVAAoJEBoqysRziP2AguAH/0btMf5pPHn2j63nvmK2g2BR nYfUMBZMMyaeWd7PZaO7VKyd1Bz4PFzh7Fdj3oFPQP2dT/eQ1rOqc6D+uOG+GZjO tkeOWmSETJ6A6j0FrGrgHnbMUrFvHwHJIk4tYTE4IaS43+dRzagadFRSusFdKaqE 73dgyJT32+3wMtxjm7IviEImEzqvw3HDoaSgalskuK8kwz1Fx8XQHgw0MZpCziu1 xFUIv37tpla3kyps1MBKYW3H9BOvmaqovX/JbSBbY+k9alHyZjjVXI1f792NiPBL jIG0E9P7NlVrMW7Lz00Lcsny/oZN+/LXdWevWw687y/OwzziEpP916HCuHoUvlc= =4EV/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
