[TriLUG] Signed keys

[Bill Vinson]

I am trying to get more informed on signing my e-mail, etc.

I am trying to figure out how to do something...

I have 2 old keys out on PGP servers.

Public Key Server -- Index ``Bill Vinson ''
Type bits/keyID    Date       User ID
pub  1024/7762CAE9 2000/05/04 Bill Vinson <billvinson at nc.rr.com>
pub  1024/8CB4BF7C 1997/11/21 Bill Vinson <billv at earthlink.net>

These were both keys that I created back before I took this 
seriously :)  I have a feeling I know what the passphrase is, but if I 
import them and try to generate a revoke script I get the following 
error:

[localhost:~/Documents] bill% gpg --output earthlink-revoke.asc 
--gen-revoke billv at earthlink.net
gpg: secret key for user `billv at earthlink.net' not found

How do I get around this?  If I can get it revoked, then how do I kill 
it out on the servers?

Ok, last idea.  Is it possible to crack my own keys and if so can I then 
revoke them?

Thanks,
Bill

On Friday, January 18, 2002, at 12:38 AM, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> I meant to send this message out Monday, but I've been a little
> busy. :-(
>
> Anyway, I did sign the keys of everyone I verified at last week's
> meetings.  They have been uploaded to the wwwkeys.de.pgp.net, and
> should have traversed to other keyservers by now.  To make things
> easy for people not comfortable with keyservers, however, I have
> placed them on the following web page:
>
> http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/gnupg.html
>
> In addition, I put a little information to help explain how
> to import the key file and how to go about uploading a key
> to a keyserver.  If you have any questions, please feel free
> to e-mail me offline.  If you want me to cover something at
> the GnuPG/PGP talk in March, let me know.  Also, Kevin said
> someone else was interested in helping with the talk.  Could
> that person please e-mail me?  Thanks.
>
> Tanner
> P.S. I've recently made a small modification to my key to
> fix the problem of it showing up as a secondary user id,
> so I'd appreciate it if anyone who has my key could take a
> second and download the latest version.  In gpg you can do
> this with this command:
>
> gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.de.pgp.net --recv-key DE7639D4
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Tanner Lovelace | lovelace at wayfarer.org | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/
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> GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA  BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4
> GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc
> --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--
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