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Re: PGP Keys Expiration



On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 02:21:09AM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>:
> >  s. keeling writes:
> > > Can we expand on that?  I have my passphrase.  I use the key all the
> > > time.  It's tied to my old, now defunct, ISP.  You mean I can generate a
> > > revocation key, then generate a new, more accurately tied key?
> > 
> >  What do you mean by "tied"?  You can edit the key and add, delete or revoke
> >  uids.  man gpg
> 
> Frankly, I don't know what's the right thing to do.  This is esoteric
> stuff for me.
> 
> gpg: requesting key AC94E4B7 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
> gpg: key AC94E4B7: "s. keeling (21Dec2003) <keeling@spots.ab.ca>" not changed
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:              unchanged: 1
> 
> Spots is dead.  What do I do now to update that to my present
> real-world situation, or do I even really have to?  I've spent many
> hours on the manpage among others.

You can assign multiple UIDs to a key, just add your new emails and
remove the old email and resend it up to the keyservers

> 
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