On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 07:58:20AM -0500, Atom Smasher wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Neil Williams wrote:
>
> >Werner et al. :
> >Maybe it's time that --send-key checks if the key to be sent has a
> >secret key in the secret keyring and if it does, prompts the user about
> >a revocation certific
Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:35 -0500, Atom Smasher wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>>
>
>>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 ha
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Neil Williams wrote:
Werner et al. :
Maybe it's time that --send-key checks if the key to be sent has a
secret key in the secret keyring and if it does, prompts the user about
a revocation certificate BEFORE allowing the key to be sent?
==
how many noobs
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 6:06 pm, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> > If even the long key IDs would be equal - that should be even posted to
> > the list because it is an rarety - you'd have to use the fingerprint of
> > the key as name (if even those would be equal,.. this would be nearly a
> > sensatio
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 5:15 pm, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> >
> > you can remove any public key from your keyring with:
> > gpg --delete-key {key-id}
>
> This prompts for the secret key id, which I do not have.
Same as the public key ID for that secret key. It's only the ID, not the key,
tha
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:35 -0500, Atom Smasher wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>
> > I overwrote the partition upon which my private key was stored. To
> > confuse matters I generated a new secret / public key pair on the same
> > machine and even imported my old public key,
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 18:42 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>
> >Hey Chris,
> >
> >Yeah I saw that from the man page and it did not help. Specifically
> >because the names are identical and when you issue --delete-key name you
> >get prompted to specify the secret
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 18:42 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
*snip*
> You'll get the key IDs of you keys with gpg --list-keys. They (should)
> key ID should be different for both of your keys, if not, you'll have to
> use the long key ID, but that is pretty unlikely.
> If even the long k
Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>Hey Chris,
>
>Yeah I saw that from the man page and it did not help. Specifically
>because the names are identical and when you issue --delete-key name you
>get prompted to specify the secret key which does not exist in my case.
>So delete-key fails to work for my needs.
>
Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>How do I properly remove the old, unusable public key when I do not
>possess the secret key any longer and without destroying my entire gpg
>installation.
>
>
--delete-key name
Remove key from the public keyring. In batch mode
either
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
I overwrote the partition upon which my private key was stored. To
confuse matters I generated a new secret / public key pair on the same
machine and even imported my old public key, thinking, rather foolishly,
that I might somehow be able to restore
Hello,
I overwrote the partition upon which my private key was stored. To
confuse matters I generated a new secret / public key pair on the same
machine and even imported my old public key, thinking, rather foolishly,
that I might somehow be able to restore the destroyed secret key.
How do I prop
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