RFC on issue 2701, default expiration time for new keys

Tobias Mueller muelli at cryptobitch.de
Sun Dec 11 22:25:08 CET 2016


Hi.

On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:23:42PM +0100, Justus Winter wrote:
> 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?
What does OpenKeychain do?
Were they asked to provide input reg. that question?
I suppose they have an opinion on the default expiration time.
And maybe even reasons.

Cheers,
  Tobi



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