-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mundy wrote: > Dan Mundy wrote: >> How do i regain a lost private key? if i can't, how can i generate a >> revoke certificate for it? if i can't, can i delete it from the servers? >> what should i do? i need help!!!!! > > nevermind... i found an old backed-up copy of my private key... sorry > for the fuss.
Good deal. And you've generated that revocation cert and are storing it with the backup copy of the key? Oh, BTW... Make another backup copy of public & private keys and that revocation cert -- and store them on different media, and b) in a different secure location. The answers to your questions wouldn't be very pleasing. How do regain the private key? You can't. There is no way to reconstruct a private key from the public key. Generate rev cert? You can't without the private key. Delete from keyservers? You can't. Servers are add-only. - -- John P. Clizbe Inet: John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org You can't spell fiasco without SCO. PGP/GPG KeyID: 0x608D2A10/0x18BB373A "what's the key to success?" / "two words: good decisions." "what's the key to good decisions?" / "one word: experience." "how do i get experience?" / "two words: bad decisions." "Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3-cvs-2005-08-29 (Windows 2000 SP4) Comment: When cryptography is outlawed, b25seSBvdXRsYXdzIHdpbGwgdXNlIG Comment: Be part of the £33t ECHELON -- Use Strong Encryption. Comment: It's YOUR right - for the time being. Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDGRcGHQSsSmCNKhARAiRIAKCEcZzUSWKrH+e548y+vX9UAuoXJQCcC4xZ q1WV+4Vgtb756ssb4CtSSr4= =rT+w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
