On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:06:38PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Di, den 18.05.2004 schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook um 21:48: > > > 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... > > The net is full with help: > > http://www.nmlug.org/faqs/gen-gpg-key.html > > http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html#ss3.7 > > http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html#q4.17 And remind folks to burn an archival CDROM with all their key data and or print it out and put it (CDROM/paper) in a safe place off line. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
