RFC on issue 2701, default expiration time for new keys

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On December 7, 2016 1:23:42 PM GMT+01:00, Justus Winter <justus at g10code.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>inspired by the talk on OpenKeychain UX decisions at the OpenPGP
>conference,  I decided that it is a bad idea to let users create keys
>that don't expire (unless they want to hang themself with --expert).
>
>This now begs the question what a good default expiration time is.
>Thoughts?

Not really any research behind it, but intuition says 2-3 years. Not so short users run into issues before familiar but short enough for it to be worth something.

>
>Relevant bug: https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2701
>
>
>Justus


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