invalid gpg key revocation
MFPA
expires2012 at rocketmail.com
Sun Mar 18 23:51:13 CET 2012
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Hi
On Wednesday 7 March 2012 at 11:52:39 PM, in
<mid:201203080052.44857.mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de>, Hauke Laging
wrote:
> The statement "Only your private key can generate the
> revocation certificate" is not wrong, at least not in a
> useful understanding which is: "It is impossible to
> revoke a key without using the private key." As you
> need the private key to add a designated revoker
Yes. But once you have added OxDECAFBAD as a designated revoker, any
person with access to the private key of OxDECAFBAD needs no further
input from you or your private key to generate a revocation
certificate for your key.
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Best regards
MFPA mailto:expires2012 at rocketmail.com
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