That's really up to you, how much you value security or not. It depends on many factors, like what the key was used for; ie, if this was the Ubuntu software PGP key, you should revoke it as others are depending on it to be secure. If you used it for just signing a few files here and there, it's probably fine.
In general, once you've lost confidence in the security of the key, you should revoke it. I personally only take around subkeys that expire every six months, so even if I lose that key, soon enough it won't matter. David Manouchehri On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 5:30 PM, <takethe...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > in which cases should I revoke a key in general? > > Let's say I have my private key on an USB stick and lose the stick > somewhere in public. The key is protected by the mantra. I'm sure, nobody > knows the mantra except me. Should I revoke the key or could I keep on > working with a copy of it? > > I'm grateful for your answers. > Thanks, Jan > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
