Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2017 schrieb deloptes:
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
When a key gets revoked, then mails are not readable any more. How do I change the keys of my gpg encoded mails when I changed my gpg key, so that I can still read the mails?
Which key gets revoked - I have never tried this use case, but IMO it should be still readable is you own the public key. I must admit that I am too lazy to test this :)
Well, the receiver of the mails wants to use a new keypair for all new mails. No matter how careful he is, it ends either in reusing the old private key occasionally or in deleting the old private key (and loosing all old mails of douptful value).
In my case, I like to create a keypair per project. When the project is "done", I' like to archive the mails in a readable (aka unencrypted) manner in a save (offline) place and delete the keypair.
Nik