Jeremiah Foster wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:35 -0500, Atom Smasher wrote: > >>On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jeremiah Foster wrote: >> <snip> > >>if you have any doubts about doing it right, or if you're having a bad >>day, backup the keyring before trying to delete anything from it. >> >>if no one else has a copy of the key, you're done. if the key is in >>circulation among key-servers (and if you don't have a revocation >>certificate) you're beat. > > > The key is on key servers and I do not have a revocation cert. Would you > elaborate on "beat"? >
Sore out of luck. People will keep using the key which is on the key server, and you will be unable to do anything except reply "Sorry, I lost that secret key, can't decrypt, here is my new key". This is why it is *very* important to have both a backup of you secret keys & a revovation certificate. -- Alphax | /"\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 | X Against HTML email & vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up | / \
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