Revocation of key with only secret portion

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On Thu, 13 May 2004, Stuart A Yeates wrote:

> I have a key-pair to which I have mislaid the public key but not the
> secret key. The public key is not on the keyservers, but some
> individuals may have it, so I would like to revoke it.
>
> All of my attemps to either generate a public key from the private key
> or generate a revocation from teh secret key alone have proved
> unsuccessful. Can I do either of these?
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try to recover the public key like this:
	$ gpg --export 0x123 | gpgsplit --no-split --secret-to-public | gpg --import

assuming that it works, you can then either use it or revoke it.


	...atom

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