-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 21/01/2013 20:59, Ludwig Hgelsch￤fer wrote: > On 21.01.13 09:53, Alessandro Basili wrote: > >> Ouch, I guess I lost also my revocation certificate (I thought I >> had it)... that was a bad move. (...) > >> it shouldn't have happened in the first place but I guess I >> should live with this. Likely the key is not widely used. > > A widely spread public key is not a problem. You can always write > back to the sender asking to use your new key. > > Quite nasty, however, is when you have valuable material (old > mails, old backups etc.) encrypted with your old key and cannot > decrypt it any more.
Likely I haven't practiced this at all and yes it would be very unfortunate! > >> 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. > > It is strongly recommended. Even a backup of the private key on > paper is possible and recommended, see > http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ > It is always surprising to find out that incredibly old 'technologies' may be handier and far cheaper than extremely advanced once. > To come back to Enigmail: Version 1.5 is suffering from bug which > probably made your signature invalid > (https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/106/). This bug has been > fixed in the latest nightly builds. That actually is a help. I'll wait for the update. - -- PGP Fingerprint DCBE 430E E93D 808B 45E6 7B8A F68D A276 565C 4450 PGP Public Key available at keys.gnugp.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ/lrLAAoJEPaNonZWXERQlj8H/iGYsYD9q8dfOodbjJyRC2n+ 5ansGWF4Ry2cHKV0QGLJbP0UAv1R1ZZVwQvmDeUkhSkFzGuSCQwFRRA+LN3FzAb3 qdwGRAPVquNxivoH2AwNOpPCqWfJyk1Rc12rlftxEiLSwZxE1SZAxayKk8lOb0bN 6eSuH/WOcAJ6I0ncyKUbRfgqJuMI0gvAw920NkWI8DvMZ5tZad8zUah755j86RHa B8RbcSE9KajZi0kio3+3yJPbuIVaQdG5jvMy7ecTileIvtxSlW7OCXYJ7yq/kOay sPf6+fh20rcMAqR9I/GyvzvcqF7gRneaMALVbgxIImGyI0ZJYEaR/N7eSFVX264= =WaYB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
