(foulty) revoking key

[gottfried hufnagel]

sorry. but there is no way for the keyserver to prove your identity without a 
public key. so the key cannot be deleted (afaik).
btw: i'm with you. did it the same (hard) way

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 09:23, Rafał Rudnicki wrote:
> while experimenting with keys I executed several careless steps and now
> seek some way out of the situation
>
> steps executed:
> - generated a proper pair of keys
> - generated revoke-cert (revoking certyficate / key)
> - did send the public key to keyserver
> - double clikked (by mistake) the revoke-cert file, that effected with
> revoking my key (locally, on my PC)
> - I DID NOT send the revoked key to key server (so the revoked key still is
> present there as a valid key)
> - deleted from HD all files related to the "old" / revoked key (public key,
> secret key, revocation file, all backups (it was done very effectively, I
> can not recover thye files even with a solid file recovery software)
>
> the problem: how to revoke / delete the not valid key from keyserver having
> nothing else but the public key on this server and assphrase ?
>
> I have GnuPG 1.2.3 and GnuPG Shell
> ---------------------------------------------
> Rafał Rudnicki
> www.rudnicki.com.pl
>
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