Un-revoking a key pair

Adam Schreiber sadam at clemson.edu
Fri Apr 6 14:59:21 CEST 2007


On 4/6/07, John B <yochanon at localnet.com> wrote:
>   Somehow the other night I accidently imported a revoking thing for my main
> secret and public key pair when I was using kgpg. Kgpg tells me I need to
> un-revoke it in the manual editor, so, could someone tell me a quick and easy
> way to do so, please? Is it possible to un-revoke?

I believe you simply need to sign the keys again.  When you create
them, a self signature is added.  When you revoke them, a revoking
signature is added.  Thus to unrevoke them an additional signature is
needed.

Cheers,

Adam



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