Key Revocation

[Chris]

On Friday 13 April 2007 11:36 pm, John Clizbe wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> > This may sound simple, but I want to make sure I get it done right. My
> > ISP/DSL provider, Embarq, has dumped Earthlink as their mail provider
> > sine 9 April and setup their own mail servers. Simple, revoke the EL key
> > and make a new key for Embarq, except, the two have come to an agreement
> > and that is that Earthlink will continue to forward mail for Embarq users
> > until 31 Oct. Question being do I keep the Earthlink key and also
> > generate one for my Embarq address or once I have everything setup for
> > the Embarq servers generate one for Embarq and at that time reovke the
> > Earthlink key?
>
> Why revoke and create a new key? Why not just add the new address on a new
> UID, and make it primary. Sometime between now and Oct 31, you can revoke
> the old UID.
>
> My AT&T address became Comcast; that became Roadrunner.
>
> Same person. Same key. Just a new email address. Plus the revoked address
> gives clueful folks the hint that email shouldn't be sent there.

I'll be changing over to my new email address tomorrow so I want to make sure 
I understand the procedure. According to the manpage I want to run $gpg 
--edit-key cpollock at earthlink.net. I'm then presented with this info:

[chris at cpollock ~]$ gpg --edit-key cpollock at earthlink.net
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.6; Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Secret key is available.

pub  1024D/98E6705C  created: 2005-11-23  expires: never       usage: SCA
                     trust: ultimate      validity: ultimate

Command>

I 'assume' at the "Command>" prompt I'd enter adduid and my new embarqmail.com 
address. Once that is done, in order to make it the primary key would I then 
have to again run gpg --edit-key and my new uid and at the Command> prompt 
enter primary? If I understand this right I'll still be using the same key 
only with a different address. Since I've now, hopefully, made my embarq 
address my primary is it just a simple matter of exporting this to the 
keyservers?  Then later down the road when I'm sure that all mailing lists 
and so forth have changed to the new address I just run all the above and at 
the Command> prompt run revuid cpollock at earthlink.net.  Please let me know if 
I've got something wrong in the way I understand this.

Thanks
Chris

-- 
Chris
KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C
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