Re: Revoking Old Lost Keys

[tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)]

At 9:10 AM 1/6/96, James Black wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Bruce Baugh wrote:
>
>> The problem is this: how can one spread the word that an old key is no
>> longer to be used when one no longer has the pass phrase, and cannot
>> therefore create a revocation certificate?
>
>  If there is someone that you trust (or several people), just make a
>revocation certificate and possibly cut it into pieces, and just let
>those know when to send it out, so that you don't have to rely on a
>faulty memory, and by having it in several hands they can't just send it
>out, as they don't know the other people.  Just a thought.

If one can safely and securely store a revocation certificate for later
use, why not just store the much shorter passphrase?

--Tim May

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