Home Office response on Burden of Proof

Ben Laurie ben at algroup.co.uk
Sat, 07 Aug 1999 13:15:19 +0100


Nicholas Bohm wrote:
> On a technical note, how can you destroy a private PGP key without
> destroying all your private keys by wiping the private keyring?  Does
> revoking the corresponding public key destroy the relevant private key?

You can extract the rest of the keys individually, blow away the private
keyring, then reconstruct from the extracted keys.

Cheers,

Ben.

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