Problem with revoking my old key

Daniel Löfquist daniel at kingsofcode.net
Thu Jan 26 23:42:06 CET 2006


Hello everybody,
This is my first post on this mailinglist so please bear with me ;-)
I've had a gnupg-keypair for about 4 years and the public key is published on
several keyservers. Recently however my key has been compromised so yesterday I
decided to make a new one. First I made a revocation certificate for the old key
using "gpg --revoke-gen --output revoke_old_key.asc daniel at kingsofcode.net".
The revocation certificate looks like this:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: A revocation certificate should follow

iGcEIBECACcFAkPYlycgHQNVbnNhdGlzZmFjdG9yeSBudW1iZXIgb2YgYml0cy4A
CgkQYFyEwpQ49PDniwCeKoortWgSt0+G1323SDwQztF3CkYAn0Gy2bNPXwKuSMyp
MQwoa/N8cu2O
=Vzao
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Now I've been trying to upload the revocation certificate to the various
keyservers but none of them wants to accept it. For example, when I try
uploading it to wwwkey.pgp.net I get this as a response:

Add failed: Malformed Key --- unexpected packet type and/or order of packets

Am I doing something wrong or why is my key not being accepted by the keyservers?


//Daniel


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