Making new keys
Werner Koch
wk@gnupg.org
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:20:55 +0100
"Allan K. Neal" <allan.neal@usu.edu> writes:
> How is the easiest way to make a new key pair without messing up my
> keyrings. I have several keys in the public keyring signed my my key,
> however my key expires in December, so I will be needing to create a new
The easiest way is to replace only the encryption key (create a new
one the old one will not be used anyway because it will expire) and
change the exiration time of your main key ("gpg --edit" then
"expire")
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