Re: About Crypto

On Wednesday 07 Jan 2009 10:24:00 pm Werner Joss wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 07 Januar 2009 15:41:38 schrieb Kishore:
> > I used kleopatra to create a certificate for me. In the end it when i
> > chose to upload the certificate to a directory service, it defaulted to
> > keys.gnupg.net but then it warned me that before exporting, i should make
> > sure i have created a "revocation certificate" so that i could revoke the
> > certificate if needed later. What does revocation certificate mean? And
> > how do I create it?
>
> from http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/c14.html :
>
> After your keypair is created you should immediately generate a revocation
> certificate for the primary public key using the option --gen-revoke. If
> you forget your passphrase or if your private key is compromised or lost,
> this revocation certificate may be published to notify others that the
> public key should no longer be used. A revoked public key can still be used
> to verify signatures made by you in the past, but it cannot be used to
> encrypt future messages to you. It also does not affect your ability to
> decrypt messages sent to you in the past if you still do have access to the
> private key.
>
> HTH
Thanks! I followed that and here is my first signed message!
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Cheers!
Kishore

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