Nuked my keyfiles

[Aplin, Justin M]

On 5/23/2010 4:29 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> 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.
>    
It was my fault. In the Windows uninstall utility, you get asked which 
components you want to remove. If you expand "Tor" and "Vidalia", 
there's a separate checkbox under each for "Application Data", which 
removes the Tor and Vidalia directories from %homepath%\Application 
Data, respectively. I didn't expand these options in my hasty uninstall, 
not thinking about my keyfiles, and they're checked by default for a 
"complete" uninstall. Oops.
>> 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
Good to know. Updating my other relays now =)

~japlin