Re: expired key
On 2004-03-23 11:31:09 +0000 Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote:
Typically your key is rendered useless when it expires - it's
presumed that
you knew what you were doing when you set the expiry, and would have
changed
the expiry if you'd wanted to keep using it. [...]
It is suggested in the GnuPG handbook that you have an expiry on your
master singing key if you could lose both the key and its revocation
certificate (natural disaster?). By setting an expiry, you limit the
life of the lost key. If you still have the key, I think that you can
update the expiry of the master signing key, but you must make sure
the self-signatures are done again.
However, some buggy software (I'm looking at you, keyserver.net!)
couldn't cope with this, last I checked, and that can cause confusion.
I think most Debian stuff copes with it?
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