[46610] in Cypherpunks
Re: Revoking Old Lost Keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Black)
Sat Jan 6 04:22:04 1996
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 04:10:24 -0500 (EST)
From: James Black <black@eng.usf.edu>
To: Bruce Baugh <bruceab@teleport.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960106070719.00694cc8@mail.teleport.com>
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.
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