Oldkeys

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Wed Nov 14 11:49:01 2001


On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:27:00 +0100, Boris de Laage de Meux said:

> I have a few keys I did use for testing & learning. They are all on www.pgp.net , but I don't use them anymore.
> Here is my problem: i don't have the secret keys. Is there a way to mark them as deprecated ?

This is the reason why I suggest to create revocation certificates and
store them at place you can get them when need (I usually print them
out).  

Without such an existing but unpublished revocation and without a
secret key you can't do anything.  There will be no evidence that you
are the legitimate owner of the key.

  Werner