On 09-10-2011 23:30, takethe...@gmx.de wrote: > in which cases should I revoke a key in general?
If you think it may be compromised. > Let's say I have my private key on an USB stick and lose the stick > somewhere in public. The key is protected by the mantra. I'm sure, nobody > knows the mantra except me. Should I revoke the key or could I keep on > working with a copy of it? That depends on your thread model and the strength of the secret key password. It happened once to me (key on a backup CD-ROM in a bag that got stolen, but unlikely by someone particulary interested in my keys. However, I still revoked it yo be sure. -- Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Johan Wevers PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
