And now, an annoying technical announcement

[sniffnoy]

My private key was not among the stuff recovered in the HD crash. Not that I exactly use encryption commonly or anything, but, my new public key has been uploaded to the usual places... (LJ, Facebook, website on umich and uchicago, the keyservers Enigmail by default suggests.)

And no, I don't have a revocation certificate for the old one, nor do I understand how those work... well, OK, that's because I haven't looked it up...

-Harry

Comments

[grenadier32.livejournal.com]

My understanding of revocation certificates is you make them public to mathematically guarantee to other users and keyservers that a known public key is no longer good, and as a backup plan to have ready in case of the private key becoming compromised (either by you losing the passphrase, or by you losing the private key). You would need to have generated it and had it backed up before you lost the private key, though. :-P