On Thursday 07 June 2007 17:32:08 Charly Avital wrote: > Bruno Costacurta wrote the following on 6/7/07 1:31 PM: > [...] > > > Hello David, > > > > (note: I'm able to revoke this subkey (done but not sent to keyserver > > yet)). > > > >[...] > > Bruno, > > I have just downloaded (again) your key now, and it looks like: > > pub 1024D/2E604D51 created: 2006-06-11 expires: never usage: SC > trust: unknown validity: unknown > This key was revoked on 2007-06-07 by DSA key 2E604D51 Bruno Costacurta > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > sub 2048g/0CC897B5 created: 2006-06-11 revoked: 2007-06-07 usage: E > [ unknown] (1). Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [ revoked] (2) pubmb01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [ revoked] (3) pubmb02 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [ revoked] (4) Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [ unknown] (5) Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [ unknown] (6) Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It would seem that you have revoked both the primary key and the subkey. > > I *believe*, but I am not sure, that you could have revoked *only* the > subkey, and generated a new subkey in its stead. That would have kept > your primary key "alive", with a new subkey, hopefully valid for > encryption to you. > > I might be wrong, but I believe that in the present situation, > generating a new E subkey will not resuscitate your primary key. >
(sorry for delays. I was off and abroad). Correct. But at least the revoked key will not be used anymore for future encryption I cannot decrypt. And future sender will use a valid encryption / decyption setup. > I hope you get more definite opinions from other forum subscribers. > > Regards, > Charly > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- PGP key ID: 0x2e604d51 Key : http://www.costacurta.org/keys/bruno_costacurta_pgp_key.html Key fingerprint = 713F 7956 9441 7DEF 58ED 1951 7E07 569B 2E60 4D51 --
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