Re: About Crypto

On Wednesday 07 January 2009 18:48:55 Kishore wrote:
> 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!

Message was signed by [email protected] (Key ID: 
0xF3740BD901EB56A2).
The signature is valid, but the key's validity is unknown.

So everything is absolutely fine :-)

Anne

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