revoke key problems

[Brian Minton]

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On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 07:38:07AM -0800, George Schoelles wrote:
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> You can't revoke a key without the secret key from a backup.  The
> key-servers only store public keys.
>=20

which is what he has done.  He already created the revocation when he mad=
e the
old key. =20

> On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:04:19 -0200 (BRST)
> Joel Franco Guzm=E1n <joel@gds-corp.com> wrote:
> JFG> 1) install gnupg
> JFG> 2) create a new certificate: gpg --gen-key
> JFG> 3) import the old: gpg --keyserver www.pgp.net --recv-key XXXXXXXX
> JFG> 4) gpg --import revkey.asc    //This is the revocation key that i
> JFG>                 //generated when i created the old key.
> JFG>                 //i had print this before
> JFG> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> JFG>=20
> JFG> Then, what is the next step now?
> JFG> i want to revoke the my old key and send this information to the
> JFG> keyservers.

You should have revoked your key by doing this.  to verify it, do:=20
gpg --check-sig XXXXXXXX

(where XXXXXXXX is the keyid of your old key)

if it shows up as [revoked] then you should just send the complete key to=
 the
keyservers:

gpg --send-key XXXXXXXX

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