Re: I have the public key, but not the private...

2005-07-29 Thread Patrick Dickey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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? > > Travis > > > > _

Re: I have the public key, but not the private...

2005-07-28 Thread John Clizbe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Travis C Newman wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 02:29 -0400, Atom Smasher wrote: > >> you did follow the instructions and created a revocation certificate, >> right? and stored it in a safe place? > > Nope. the howto I followed had nothing about it.

Re: I have the public key, but not the private...

2005-07-27 Thread Travis C Newman
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 02:29 -0400, Atom Smasher wrote: > you did follow the instructions and created a revocation certificate, > right? and stored it in a safe place? Nope. the howto I followed had nothing about it. I'm admittedly quite green with GPG. I just needed it to sign something once, no

Re: I have the public key, but not the private...

2005-07-27 Thread Atom Smasher
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? == um... no. without the private key, you're beat. t

Re: I have the public key, but not the private...

2005-07-27 Thread Richard Laager
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 00:43 -0400, 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? You're out of luck. If you generated a revocation

I have the public key, but not the private...

2005-07-26 Thread Travis C Newman
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? Travis ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://l