At 9:10 AM 1/6/96, James Black wrote:

Hello,

On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Bruce Baugh wrote:

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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 We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."