Revocation

[Dale Harris]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 02:33:25PM -0500, Richard B. Tilley (Brad) elucidated:
> Hello freedom loving GNUpg users!
> 
> I have a revoke.asc file in case something should ever happen to my secret
> key. Is it a good idea to encrypt the revoke.asc file? Could encrypting it
> with the key it is meant to revoke cause problems? I store revoke.asc in
> my .gnupg directory. I do not want to print it out on paper.
> 
> Thank you
> 


Well, it'd probably be best burned to a CD and stored in a very safe
place.  Printing it out on paper wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea,
think of it was a backup, of course keep it somewhere like a safe deposit box
or safe.


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