DESTROYOLDKEY
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: May 8, 1990
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NAME
destroyoldkey - destroy the machine key of the user
FOR EXPERIMENTAL USE ONLY
SYNOPSIS
destroyoldkey
DESCRIPTION
Destroyoldkey
destroys the users machine key. Following destruction of the machine key, the secret key cannot be recovered. It is gone. Permanently. Previously made signatures can still be checked for validity by using the public key, which is never destroyed. "Destroyoldkey" is normally used when the user wishes to change the secret key as a routine security precaution, or when the user suspects the key might have been compromised, and wishes to use a new key.
EXAMPLES
destroyoldkey
The user's machine key is destroyed, which means
the secret signing key is unrecoverable.
FILES
"destroyoldkey" expects to find the secret signing keys in:
/net/palain/rouge/privdir and
/net/palain/jaune/privdir.
SEE ALSO
check(1) sign(1) makepublickey(1) dumpsig(1) recoverauxinfo(1)
AUTHOR
Ralph C. Merkle
Copyright (C) 1990 Xerox Corporation
All Rights Reserved
Index
- NAME
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- FOR EXPERIMENTAL USE ONLY
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- EXAMPLES
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- FILES
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- SEE ALSO
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- AUTHOR
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