On Monday 30 April 2018 02:18:14 pm Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Monday 30 April 2018 16:27:35 deloptes wrote:

> > Gene Heskett wrote:

> > > The biggest problem is that I have a public key that was published

> > > back about pgp-262 or 262a time, 20 years back, so its out there

> > > "someplace", so I expect I should try to locate it and remove it

> > > from view/use before I try to setup another. Unforch ther drive in

> > > the amiga died, and took the keys with it to that great pasture that

> > > shitty drives goto when they fail.

> >

> > check here:

> > http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=Gene+Heskett&fi

> >ngerprint=on&op=index

>

> Well I'll be... From 15 years ago even.

>

> > you can upload the revocation to revoke it.

>

> Using kgpg I assume, and the id strings that page displays.

>

> > > I don't recall if I set an expire on it or not. Or without the

> > > shorter ID string, how to convince the key-servers its mine, so its

> > > ok to nuke that puppy.

> >

> > obviously not

Following along, Iam lucky, I had made a revoke.asc file on two of my id's. Mine is from 2001, never used it though..to much work.

I used the command line, gpg2, and directons from "Askubuntu", out of many dsearch results.

"pub 1024D/AF0A7290 2001-11-17

sig revok AF0A7290 2001-11-17 __________ __________ [selfsig]"

greg