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Re: GPG key change



Hello David,

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote:
> I've somehow lost my private key for encryption. That is, I can sign anything,
> also encrypt, but not decrypt anything encrypted with my key.
> 
> I've already added a new encryption sub-key (and works), but having lost the
> private part for the other subkey, I cannot revoke it. Any idea?

Its a while since I played around with GPG but IIRC, the sub-keys are
signed (and thus revoked) by the signing key. So having access to the
signing key ought to be enough to generate a revocation certificate
for an encryption key. Let me check.

Regards,

Kapil.
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