Forgot my passphrase.

[Jean-David Beyer]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
 > Ggrrrr
 >
 > I forgot my passphrase.  I was experimenting with diceware, I made a
 > new passphrase but now I can't retype it.  I don't understand, I even
 > wrote it down!  It's no use, I've tried every possible error I could
 > have made when typing it.

When I had Red Hat Linux 5.0, I had that problem just logging onto the
machine until I discovered that it interpreted the numbers across the 
top of the keyboard as different from the numbers on the number pad. I 
have not seen that since the login-password part of that version of 
Linux, but perhaps something like that was happening to you???
 >
 > Well, at least I have a revocation certificate, and I wasn't
 > dependent on this key yet.
 >
 > I just wanted to double check that I have revoked my key correctly.
 > I've sent the revoked key to 4 HPK servers and one LDAP:
 >
 > ~ $ gpg --import 29381B7E_revoke.asc gpg: key 29381B7E: "Daniel
 > Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>" revocation certificate imported gpg:
 > Total number processed: 1 gpg:    new key revocations: 1 ~ $ gpg
 > --keyserver search.keyserver.net --send-keys 0x29381B7E gpg: success
 > sending to `search.keyserver.net' (status=200) ~ $ gpg --keyserver
 > keyserver.kjsl.com --send-keys 0x29381B7E gpg: success sending to
 > `keyserver.kjsl.com' (status=200) ~ $ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu
 > --send-keys 0x29381B7E gpg: success sending to `pgp.mit.edu'
 > (status=200) ~ $ gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --send-keys
 > 0x29381B7E gpg: success sending to `wwwkeys.pgp.net' (status=200) ~ $
 > gpg --keyserver ldap://keyserver.pgp.com --send-keys 0x29381B7E ~ $
 >
 > Have I done everything correctly?
 >
 > Thanks.  I'll make a new key-pair and I'll be VERY CAREFUL with the
 > passphrase.



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