-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You can't. If you have lost your private key, there's no way you could revoke the public key anymore. That's why it's important to create a revokation certificate and store it safely (and maybe even print it, so that you could type it if all other means fail).
- -Patrick Francis Gulotta wrote: > How would I revoke a key I no longer have a private key for? I > understand I can't do the same thing, but can I do something like the > opposite of signing? Signing against a key? > > -Francis > > Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > > >>>You can revoke the keys you don't need anymore. Since you seem to be >>>using Enigmail, the easiest is to open the Enigmail OpenPGP Key >>>Management window, select the key you want to revoke, and choose "Revoke >>>key" from the context menu. Then, you can upload your revoked key to a >>>keyserver. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCiaTS2KgHx8zsInsRAp20AKDiJAktxyabk6SCqgu3j9JsAsmvHACgusT7 8bqbsErnPG9PGMqpMbyze/g= =Crvi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
