[Enigmail] Revoked keys - was: PGP, Encryption and general help - Barry H

[John Clizbe]

Charly Avital wrote:
> John Clizbe wrote the following on 6/27/08 12:58 AM:
> [...]
> 
>> Create a key, don't send it to any keyserver. Revoke it. Now send it to a
>> keyserver and send me the key ID. I'll send you a message encrypted with the
>> key. Fair enough?
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> Are there any other magic incantations, that Puzzle Palace is aware of?

I wouldn't know; have never had any personal involvement with any of them. And
if I did, I still couldn't tell you that I had.

You'd have to ask someone in crypto who worked there. But then, they wouldn't
tell you either.

As hacks go, this one isn't all that difficult if you think hard about it.
Might earn one the Scary Devil Monastery[1] BOFH[2] Leatherman[3].


-John

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.sysadmin.recovery
[2] http://scarydevilmonastery.net/ (Note: buy the Abbot a beer for this)
[3] http://www.leatherman.com/

-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:   John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net  or
     mailto:pgp-public-keys at gingerbear.net?subject=HELP

Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?"
A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"

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