On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Travis C Newman wrote:
I had reinstalled a while ago, and forgot to backup my gpg files. I have
retrieved my public key from MIT's keyserver, but I don't have the
private key, so I can't sign anything. Help?
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um... no. without the private key, you're beat. that's kind of the whole
point of pgp/gpg.
if you discover a way to recover the private key from a public key before
the earth is swallowed by the sun, we'd all like to know about it.
you did follow the instructions and created a revocation certificate,
right? and stored it in a safe place?
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...atom
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PGP key - http://atom.smasher.org/pgp.txt
762A 3B98 A3C3 96C9 C6B7 582A B88D 52E4 D9F5 7808
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