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

Burkhalter Christoph chb@elca.ch
Wed Feb 13 15:33:01 2002


It's easy: You just have to proof, that you are the owner of the key

=:-)

good luck
-- chris


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Franck PERREAU [mailto:franck.perreau@cw.com]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2002 14:50
> To: Sebastian Wiesinger
> Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
> Subject: Re: HOWTO Revoke a key without having any backup of the key
> pair ????
> 
> 
> 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
> >
> 
> 
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