Generating revocation certificate

[Markus Reichelt]

* André Ockers <andre at ockers.eu> wrote:

> But when I tried to do the some thing in Bash I ran into the following:
> 
> $ gpg -a --output andre at ockers.eu.asc.revoke --gen-revoke andre at ockers.eu
> 
> sec  4096R/F5FE3668 2014-07-31 André Ockers <andre at ockers.eu>
> 
> Which is the fingerprint of the old key.
> 
> What happened and what can I do?

you almost had it, just use the fingerprint of the key in question
instead of an email address:

gpg -a --output andre at ockers.eu.asc.revoke --gen-revoke 7CD3FBC8F6005ED5

will create a revocation cert for the key you signed your mail with.

HTH

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