Key revoking

[Thomas Bader]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Nate Eldredge wrote:

Hi!

> 1.  The manual tells how to generate a revocation certificate
> (--gen-revoke).  What is it that gets spit out?  It says "PGP PUBLIC
> KEY BLOCK", and the comment says "A revocation certificate should
> follow", which would seem to imply that perhaps this isn't the
> certificate itself.

This _is_ the revocation certificate.

> 1a. Once I have a revocation certificate, how do I use it?  Suppose

You only have to send it to the keyserver nearest to you.

> I've lost my secret key and want to revoke it.  What should I do with
> the certificate?  I tried, for example, submitting the output of
> --gen-revoke to a keyserver, but it rejects it.

Are you trying to send an ascii armored certificate or a binary
certificate? Try the option --armor

 Cheers,
        Thomas
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