Re: Problem removing a public key whose private key is gone

2006-03-13 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:35 -0500, Atom Smasher wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > > I overwrote the partition upon which my private key was stored. To > > confuse matters I generated a new secret / public key pair on the same > > machine and even im

Re: Problem removing a public key whose private key is gone

2006-03-13 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 18:42 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > >Hey Chris, > > > >Yeah I saw that from the man page and it did not help. Specifically > >because the names are identical and when you issue --delete-key name you > &g

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2006-03-08 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 18:42 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: *snip* > You'll get the key IDs of you keys with gpg --list-keys. They (should) > key ID should be different for both of your keys, if not, you'll have to > use the long key ID, but that is pretty unlikely. > If even the long k

Problem removing a public key whose private key is gone

2006-03-07 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Hello, I overwrote the partition upon which my private key was stored. To confuse matters I generated a new secret / public key pair on the same machine and even imported my old public key, thinking, rather foolishly, that I might somehow be able to restore the destroyed secret key. How do I prop