When I installed thunderbird on my laptop, it also installed enigmail the PGP/GPG plugin for thunderbird. Since my laptop hard drive died in January, I hadn't bothered to reinstall enigmail, so I'd let my use of proper email signing go. Today I decided to look into it and found out that I had 4 PGP keys that had been created since I began playing around with PGP. Two of them were active and two were expired. Unfortunately, I only had copies of two of the secure keys--one active and one expired. I decided to revoke both of them since the one that was still active that I had a key for had no revokation date. Unfortunately, that leaves one key active that I don't have the private key for (I believe it was lost with my old hard drive). Luckily, that key expires sometime in November. I'll be generating a new key today, maybe this time I cna keep better track of the revocation file...



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