Re: Key Revocation

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Robert Clemens wrote:
> The only issue not easily resolvable on your own would be losing your
> key entirely. This would have an effect
> on the account as it would permanently drain funds for data storage that
> is unusable. There are a couple scenarios
> that would happen in this case.
>  1) The funds (hopefully few) would be depleted and you would use
> another account.
>  2) The funds are plentiful (bummer) and you would need to contact Colin
> for support on this. Not sure what his
>    options are as of this time to do file or key deletion on your behalf
> if you could prove your identity justly.

Yes, if you lose your keys for a machine and can convince me that you are
yourself, I can delete the data stored by that machine so that it doesn't
keep on draining money from your account.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid