How Revoke an "Unrevokeable" Key

[Bahman Movaqar]

On 2007-11-23 Kara wrote:

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> Reference your 23 Nov 2007 (0630 +0300):
>                "Re: How to remove a key from keyserver?":
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> > Ah!  Experience costs!  Thanks for your time and replies,
> 
> You're *stuck* as you are already aware.
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> I have one very, very poor possibility that you might consider  -- it
> won't solve your problem but is perhaps somewhat better than nothing:
> 
> 1.  Create a new key and include as a comment:  Replaces 0x12345678
> 
>     Then make a revocation certificate for the new key,
>     make a backup of the new key, *and then and only then*:
> 
>     a.  Use that new key to sign all userIDs on 0x12345678.
> 
>     b.  Then upload 0x12345678 to a public keyserver.
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>     c.  Then, if you wish -- upload your "new" key to a
>         public keyserver.
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> ====
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> That would work for one key (0x123456789) but if you have several keys
> I'm not sure if you'd like to try the same thing using the same key
> for several of your old keys, e.g.,:
> 
> 2.  Create a new key and include as a comment:
> 
>         Replaces 0x12345678, 0xABCDEFGH, 0x87654321
> 
>     etc, etc, etc from above
> 
> ====
> 
> Again, either option 1 or 2 above won't really solve your problem but
> in lieu of doing nothing is all I can think of.
> 
> I've never see the above done with more than one key -- and even then
> it is an absolutely terrible solution to a problem that otherwise
> doesn't have a valid solution.
> 
> Robert H and probably all of the other "experienced" GPG/PGP users
> will no doubt tell you the above suggestion is a total waste of time
> and won't accomplish anything worthwhile -- and they will probably be
> right!
> 
> However, what have you got to lose?
> 
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> PS:  I'm not expert but just someone trying to provide something for
> you to think about to see if it makes any sense to you.
> 
> Good luck whatever you decide to do.

Looks like that's the only way left; an ugly one but better than
nothing.  Thank you,

PS: I CC'd users@ list.

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Bahman Movaqar
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