-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello fedora gpg users... I know your out there, I've seen the clues. Once before I almost started to use pgp... But of all the people I corresponded with, only one would use it. And I wasn't doing anything I felt needed encryption anyway. BUT in todays age of identity theft, I'd like to establish a precedence of securing my communications by at least signing them. So I looked into gpg, and this time the docs made a little more sense... So off I went and made me a new key pair. (I remembered having and old one that I didn't want to use anymore, (I'm not sure I've kept the private key secure enough) But I extracted said disused key pair from archive, and imported it to my new gpg ring so I could issue a revocation certificate. The GPG docs warn that ANYBODY can publish one so to treat it carefully. But I didn't find an obvious how-to on revocation... > -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: A revocation certificate should follow > > iFMEIBECABMFAkCpMs4MHQBmdXR1cmUgdXNlAAoJEGgBnJz17aybmIMAoJ92y5gT > KhfuQjcSwukXUlnTh/iyAKCHjYajtRp+R1WEo/TR7UvcW474sQ== > =2NeG > -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- But when I tried to feed this to the key server. > Public Key Server -- Add > > Key block in add request contained no new > keys, userid's, or signatures. > Your key block contained 1 format errors, > which were treated as if the erroneous elements > hadn't been part of your submission. > The last error was on key 0x00000073: > Key block corrupt: signature without key Yet when I selected the: > Remove a key > Search String:_F5EDAC9B_______________________[remove the key!] at the bottom of http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ What I get is. > MIT PGP Public Key Server > Frequently Asked Questions > Before you send mail with a question, please check that it isn't already > answered below. > > 1. > Can you delete my key from the key server? > No, we cannot remove your key from the key server. When > you submit a key to our key server the key is also > forwarded to other key servers around the world, and they > in turn forward the key to still other servers. Deleting > the key from our server would not cause it to be deleted > from any of the other servers in the world and so this is > not an effective way to ensure the discontinued use of > your key. That makes sense. And is why I made the revocation certificate in the first place... Help? - -- | ? ? | | -=- -=- I'm NOT clueless... | <?> <?> But I just don't know. | ^ Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | --- J(tWdy)P | <jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx> | ? ? ##################################################################### # You can find my public gpg key at http://members.ttlc.net/~jtwdyp # ##################################################################### -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAqmgoRZ/61mwhY94RAhEiAKCJl8D2dVoyPmWbQk/oBuhqgBB08gCfWyc8 6HxAlSHfnSoh6ycPvKMkt94= =QWSy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
