HOWTO Revoke a key without having any backup of the key pair ????

Franck PERREAU Franck PERREAU" <fperreau@fr.cw.net
Wed Feb 13 14:52:02 2002


Unfortunatelly, I haven't done such a revocation certificate :(

But I guess there must be some system administrator/moderators or so for
these key server, right ?

Someone somewhere must exist to give me some help on this :)
no ?

Best Regards,
Franck PERREAU.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Wiesinger" <bofh@fire-world.de>
To: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: HOWTO Revoke a key without having any backup of the key
pair ????


> * Franck PERREAU <franck.perreau@cw.com> [2002-02-13 13:12]:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've been stolen my laptop and would like to know what is the
process to
> > either revoke a key (private and public keys have been lost, with my
> > laptop, and my public key is published on a keyserver), and/or to
> > recreate one and register it to replace the older one ?
>
> The only way to do that is to use the revocation certificate you
created
> for your key. You created one, didn't you? If not, there is NO way to
> revoke your key.
>
> Greetings
> Sebastian
> --
> Sebastian Wiesinger <bofh@fire-world.de>
> GPG Key-ID: 0x76B79F20
> Fingerprint: F7C9 2DA7 ED4C 17B7 1523  98F5 1B60 34F4 76B7 9F20
> /(bb|[^b]{2})/ that is the Question
>