gnupg passphrase can't create revocation certificate

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Wednesday 15 September 2010 at 11:02:04 AM, in
<mid:29716920.post at talk.nabble.com>, uncle mike wrote:



> yesterday I created a gnupg rsa key and I pubblished it to the mit keyserver
> to see how gnupg works.

> After that I tried to ceate a revocation certificate,
> but when I enter the passphrase the program say
> "incorrect passphrase" :s

If you can't enter the correct passphrase, you also cannot sign
anything with that key and cannot decrypt anything encrypted to that
key.



> now, i'm sure that the passphrase is "l'hccds:)"

1. If you manage to work it out, change the passphrase and don't
publish the new one. A passphrase should not be public knowledge.

2. That looks like an incredibly short passphrase.



> is there a problem whit special chars in gnupg (I'm
> using ubuntu 10.04lts)?

I don't know. But passphrases are case-sensitive. The caps lock may be
in the opposite setting to when you created the key? Additionally, a
different nationality of keyboard layout may move certain characters
to different keys, so check if this could have changed.

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