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It's worth thinking this through one step further IMO. What kind of event would cause a private key to be compromised, so that it needs to be revoked? The mos
by cvwright 10y ago
It's worth thinking this through one step further IMO. What kind of event would cause a private key to be compromised, so that it needs to be revoked?
The most likely cases are that (1) the client machine was compromised, or (2) an un-encrypted backup was lost. In either case, I have a hard time seeing how one private key needs to be revoked but others on the same client machine don't.
- bahjoite 10y agoAgreed - it's what I meant by that third sentence. There are of course reasons to revoke one of a collection of keys, for example natural end-of-life rotation, weak key generation and accidental disclosure.