revoke key problems

JanuszA.Urbanowicz JanuszA.Urbanowicz
Thu Nov 22 15:53:02 2001


[Joel Franco Guzm_n] wrote/napisa=B3[a]/schrieb:
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> HI,
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> 	Plz,
> 	I lost all the information in my harddisk last week and i want to
> revoke my lost certificate.
> 	i have tried the following, but i don't get it to work:
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> 1) install gnupg
> 2) create a new certificate: gpg --gen-key
> 3) import the old: gpg --keyserver www.pgp.net --recv-key XXXXXXXX
> 4) gpg --import revkey.asc	//This is the revocation key that i
> 				//generated when i created the old key.
> 				//i had print this before
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
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> Then, what is the next step now?
> i want to revoke the my old key and send this information to the
> keyservers.

check if the revocation was imported by doing gpg -kvv <old key name>=20
it should show [revoked] at primary UID. Then reexport the key to
keyservers.

Alex
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