On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 01:13:00PM +0100, Hubert Lombard wrote: > Hello ! > > I recently started to get interested in GPG. Last week, during my first > tests, I sent my first key to 'keys.gnupg.net' > but I understood only yesterday that this server could have been > compromised since 2019. When I tried to revoke the key permanently, it > was not found. > So I deleted the key from my computer with Seahorse, and immediately > after, still with Seahorse, I generated a new key pair using the same > email address and choosing the key server 'keys.openpgp.org'
Why? The integrity of your privat key will not be affected by the keyserver you put your public key on. > > When creating this new key pair, instead of going directly to the > revocation step, I sent my public key. > After that, I performed the revocation step. That again does not make any sense. Why would you create a key pair just to revoke this immediately? > > Could the inversion of these 2 steps have had an impact on the fact > that 'https://keys.openpgp.org/' does not find my e-mail address? > On the other hand, it does find my > E67C43563F94C4756557A483B2A8FF57185B13B0 key > > I'm wondering at this point if there is an error I could fix or if it's > better to revoke/delete this current key-pair. Maybe you want to read the GNU Privacy Handbook https://gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html It is not a perfect beginners guide but it may give you a better understanding how things are working. > > Thank in advance for your advice > > Regards > > Hubert > -- > Hubert Lombard <contact@hubert-lombard.website> > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
