Immediately after creating a GnuPG key pair you want to produce the revocation certificate for the key whose ID is A1B2C3D4, so that you can withdraw the key later even if you lose the passphrase. Type the gpg command, with no output-file option.
LPIC-1 Exam 102-500, objective 110. Security hard
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Answer
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Accepted answers
gpg --gen-revoke A1B2C3D4gpg --generate-revocation A1B2C3D4gpg2 --gen-revoke A1B2C3D4gpg2 --generate-revocation A1B2C3D4
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Why
A revocation certificate is generated once, ideally at key creation time, and stored somewhere safe and offline: publishing it is what tells the world the key must no longer be used. In GnuPG 2.1 and later the canonical spelling is --generate-revocation, with --gen-revoke kept as the shorter alias; add `--output revoke.asc` to write it to a file rather than the terminal. Recent versions also drop a pre-made revocation certificate into ~/.gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d when a key is created. The rest of your GnuPG state lives under ~/.gnupg too: the public keyring pubring.kbx, secret keys under private-keys-v1.d, and the trust database trustdb.gpg. After revoking, push the updated key to a key server with `gpg --keyserver <server> --send-keys A1B2C3D4`.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- LPI exam objective 110.3
- What it says
- Create a revocation certificate for a GnuPG key and know where GnuPG stores its keyrings.
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