tag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:/discussions/problems/131618-revoked-key-created-new-key-still-being-asked-for-the-old-passwordGPGTools: Discussion 2023-04-20T15:59:41Ztag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/578744422023-02-09T00:09:37Z2023-02-09T00:09:37ZGPG Keychain: Revoked key & created new key - still being asked for the old password?<div><p>Hi Chris,</p>
<p>welcome to the GPGTools support platform. Sorry to hear you are having problems using GPG Suite.</p>
<p>From your description this sounds like you turned all the right knobs and pushed the correct buttons in good order.</p>
<p>Even revoked or expired keys can be used to decrypt content. Otherwise revoking a key would mean you would loose access to any content that has ever been encrypted with the corresponding public key.</p>
<p>New content can not be encrypted using expired or revoked public keys. If however a contact of yours has the public key of your revoked key pair and has not updated that public key from the key servers recently, that public key will still be valid, since without the key update they are not yet aware of your keys new revoked state.</p>
<p>I would recommend sending out an email to your contacts explaining that you have a new key, share the fingerprint of your new key and ask them to delete the old public key of yours or update it from the key server (GPG Keychain with old public key selected + menubar > Key > Update from key server …)</p>
<p>You could attach your new public key to that email if you want.</p>
<p>Hope this helps,<br>
Steve</p></div>Steve