How to revoke gnupg public key without private key?
- by danijelc
Long story short I have an key generated with seahorse and mistakenly deleted it from my system. I do remember passphrase but I don't have this key anywhere on my system. Scanned trough Ask Ubuntu but couldn't find any aplicabile solution on similar issue.
However public key is still updated on keyring servers and I would like to revoke it. Since I have no revocation certificate and I can't get hold of private key (only public key is available from keyservers which I imported to seahorse) I have no idea how to accomplish it.
Spent some time searching for solution acros net, various manuals and so on, but so far no luck.
gpg --list-secret-keys - returns no output at all.
gpg --list-keys - returns public key info
gpg --gen-revoke *user-id* - returns - gpg: secret key *user-id* not found: eof
gpg (GnuPG) version 1.4.11.
Anyone able to suggest a solution?