Re: Mutt Questions

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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Ok. The revocation stuff is only in the event that you lose your
private key, and you need to revoke your old public key. So, you would
then use the revoke.asc file to do that, without needing to know the password
for your private key. Most likely, you didn't do any damage, if you
were following the instructions exactly. If however, you view the info
for your public key, and it actually tells you that this particular
key is revoked, then you're screwed, create a new key in that case,
and be more careful next time.

Greg

P.S. Actually, if you didn't publish your public key to a key server
after it told you the key is revoked, then you're not really
screwed. If I'm correct, you should just be able to wipe your old key
from your keyring, and create it again.



On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 03:15:33PM -0500, ace wrote:
> OK, now I'm pissed.  It told me to do --gen-revoke to get a public 
> certificate file and I did so.  Now it says that my key is revoked!  
> What did I do wrong here?  I have a revoke.asc file.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robby

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