What to do when subkey expires?

Paul Richard Ramer free10pro at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 03:37:31 CEST 2010


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On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:20:06 -0400, Brian Mearns wrote:
> Sorry for such a simple question, but I can't find a simple answer. My
> signing and encryption subkeys have expired, so do I just create new
> subkeys, and upload to the SKS servers? Do I have to delete the
> subkeys, or revoke them?

Create new ones.  You don't need to delete or revoke them, because no
one is going to use them now that they have expired.


- -Paul

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