(foulty) revoking key

[gottfried hufnagel]

typo: [..] no way for the keyserver to proof your identity without the PRIVATE 
key [..]

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 17:18, gottfried hufnagel wrote:
> 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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