key question

Paul Richard Ramer free10pro at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 23:03:11 CET 2010


My error.  I didn't CC the following message to the mailing list.

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 02:38 -0800, Paul Richard Ramer wrote:
> I won't add to the other good replies, except for this.  Concerning
> the
> revocation certificate that you would be behooved to create, you
> should
> take care to protect it.  If an enemy (and we hope you don't have
> any :-)) got a hold of your revocation certificate, he could revoke
> your
> key by uploading the certificate to public keyservers.
> 
> Even though your copy of your private and public keys wouldn't be
> revoked, all of the copies of your public key on the public keyservers
> would be revoked.  This, of course, would be a major impediment to
> people wanting to privately communicate with you.
> 
> Other than that, feel free to ask your questions on this mailing list.
> We are here to help.
> 
> Paul
> -- 
> Privacy is good.  Use PGP.
> 
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> | PGP Key ID: 0x3DB6D884                                              |
> | PGP Fingerprint: EBA7 88B3 6D98 2D4A E045  A9F7 C7C6 6ADF 3DB6 D884 |
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Privacy is good.  Use PGP.

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| PGP Key ID: 0x3DB6D884                                              |
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