Re: [Debconf-discuss] OpenPGP primary key expirations: useful? [was: Re: Last call for keys for keysigning in New York City, USA during DebConf10]

[Clint Adams <schizo@debconf.org>]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:29:01AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> They are also useful to discover and educate folks who do not
> regularly refresh keys from the keyserver network. On more than one
> occasion I've had folks tell me my key was expired when I'd updated
> the expiry and pushed it to the keyserver network months ago. Such
> folks are likely to miss revocation events, pushing expiry events to
> these folks is a good way to educate them refreshing keys and about
> other best practices.

Prior to this discussion I had never even considered purposefully
setting an expiration date without intending to actually decommission
the key when that date rolled around.

I must say I find the concept quite bizarre, but then I don't use
renewable tickets in Kerberos either.