Expirations: PGPfreeware 6.0 vs. GPG 0.4.2

[Frank J. Beckmann]

On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 08:42:48PM -0600, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
> A friend of mine created a keypair in PGPfreeware 6.0 (Windows), and set
> an expiration time of 1 year. However, when GPG sees the public key, it
> thinks it expired many, many moons ago. GPG output:
> 
> $ gpg --edit-key otherguy
> gpg (GnuPG) 0.4.2; Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
> 
> 
> gpg: key E2445CD9.64: expired at Tue Jan 05 00:00:00 1971 GMT
> pub  1024D/E2445CD9  created: 1998-10-27 expires: 1971-01-05 trust: -/e
> sub  2048g/92FFB6F4  created: 1998-10-27 expires: never
> (1)  Other Guy <otherguy at some.host.com>
> 
> Any ideas about this? Is PGP in the wrong here, or is GPG (one of them is
> definitely wrong ;-)? I have no idea about the Windows product he's using,
> so maybe this is a simple misconfiguration on his part?

It seams gpg always says expires: never with sub keys. I created
a D/g key with expire time of 4 years. gpg --edit-key says 

pub  1024D/46DE66CA  created: 1998-10-29 expires: 2002-10-28 trust: -/u
sub  1024g/9A25B7DB  created: 1998-10-29 expires: never

I changed the expire time of the subkey to 1 year but it still says

sub  1024g/9A25B7DB  created: 1998-10-29 expires: never

but gpg -vv --list-keys 46DE66CA shows

:public key packet:
        version 4, algo 17, created 909626405, expires 0
:signature packet: algo 17, keyid DE8CC16746DE66CA
        hashed subpkt 2 len 5 (sig created 1998-10-29)
	hashed subpkt 9 len 5 (key expires 2002-10-28)
:public sub key packet:
        version 4, algo 16, created 909626435, expires 0
:signature packet: algo 17, keyid DE8CC16746DE66CA
        hashed subpkt 2 len 5 (sig created 1998-10-29)
        hashed subpkt 9 len 5 (key expires 1999-10-29)

I have included it below.

Another strange thing is: a key which I signed but associate only 
marginal trust with shows:  trust: m/f
Another which I didn't sign but fully trust shows: trust: f/q

Other wishes for the todo list:
- prefs editor (but I think that is already on the list)
- possibility to create keys with other than the buildin
  cyphers


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Comment: For info finger gcrypt at ftp.guug.de

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Frank