PGP Seahorse – How to Create a PGP Key Revocation Certificate in Seahorse

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I created a PGP Key using Seahorse in Ubuntu's Passwords and Keys (13.04). To my understanding, creating a revocation certificate for the PGP key is important for a couple of reasons.

I don't see any way of creating the revocation certificate in Ubuntu. I would appreciate some direction with this issue.

Best Answer

If you're fine with using the command line, this is easily done using gpg --gen-revoke.

The revocation certificate is stored in revoke.asc (in your home directory if you do not change anything else) and you should replace mykey by your key id.

gpg --output revoke.asc --gen-revoke mykey

Remember to store it in a save place, for example by printing it to a QR code or something similar.

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