[lug] gpg key revocation

[Hugh Brown]

I had set up a gpg key several years ago and submitted it to the pgp key
servers.  I no longer need or want the key and today I found the
revocation key that I output to a file.

I'm trying to figure out what the right thing to submit to the key server
is in order to revoke the key.

Do I cut and past the revoke cert followed by the public key, vice versa,
...?

Right now I have the ascii output from the revocation file which looks
like (but isn't) this:

-------BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6
Comment: A revocation certificate should follow

two lines of 64 chars
one line of 16 chars
one line of 5 chars
-------END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK------

If I submit just the above, then I get an error saying that it didn't like
the input.

The public key for the key I want to revoke is similar to the above but
the "lines of <n> chars" is much bigger.

The difficulty of course is that I no longer remember the passphrase to
the key.

What's the right way to revoke a cert?

Hugh