encrypting to expired keys (was Re: Expire-date of subkey problem)

[David Shaw]

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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:36:45PM -0400, Jason Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 06:46:32PM +0200, Matto Fransen wrote:
>=20
> > I have not been able to the expire-date of a subkey. I have copied a
> > part of the edit-key procedure below:
>=20
> [moved from gnupg-users to gnupg-devel]
>=20
> Indeed, is there any combination of options to allow GPG (1.2.1 or 1.2.2)
> to encrypt to an _expired_ subkey?  It seems to me that --ignore-time-
> conflict, perhaps combined with --expert, should have been sufficient,
> although adding --trusted-key and fully specifying the subkey to use
> via -r <fingerprint of expired subkey>! didn't help either.

I'll admit to a certain curiosity as to why someone would want to do
such a thing.  This key is no more.  It has ceased to be.  It's
*expired*.

Using it after expiration is against the express wishes of the person
who put the key out there in the first place - the key owner.

David

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