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Re: PGP Keys Expiration




On 07/06/2008 08:36:13 AM, John W Foster wrote:
I have over the years established several PGP public keys that are no
longer valid due to expired e-mail addresses. I did not think at the
time they were created that I needed an expiration date in thm.

FWIW, IIRC accepted best practice is to generate a revocation
when you generate the initial key pair.  Then (so long as
you keep backups) you'll always be able to revoke the key
even if you forget the password, or whatever.

Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein


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