Nuked my keyfiles

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:21:53AM -0400, Aplin, Justin M wrote:
> I recently uninstalled the 0.2.1.25-0.2.7 package from my Windows  
> machine using the built-in uninstall utility and upgraded to the latest  
> alpha build (I've had issues installing one version on top of the other  
> before) and I totally forgot to look and see whether the uninstall  
> utility planned on nuking my Data Directory (it did).

Hm. I wonder if that's a bug. If you apt-get remove tor on debian,
it leaves your key files behind, right? Or I wonder if *that*'s a bug,
since leaving private keys sitting about isn't so good either.

> Of course, I never  
> made a backup of my keyfiles (bad japlin!), so I'm now operating with  
> new keys and new fingerprints. Besides changing the myfamily option on  
> my other relays to reflect the current fingerprint, what should I do at  
> this point? I remember when I first set up my relays, the documentation  
> recommended sending an email in a specific format to tor-ops, but I  
> can't find anything about it anymore. Is this no longer necessary? Am I  
> good just sitting tight?

You're fine. We abandoned the whole "mail your fingerprint in" thing
years ago.

Thanks!
--Roger