suggestions surrounding key generating

[Stefan H. Holek]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Werner Koch wrote:

> I can see the problem and given the fact that the expiration date
> can be changed later, it might make sense to have a default
> expiration time: 6 months, 1 year or 2 years?

This of course depends on the policy. IMHO 2 years is a reasonable
lifetime for a key that gets used. But if this default expiration is
mainly intended to prevent screwed up keys to linger around forever, I
would recommend to make it rather short and advise users to change it when
they are positive their key is the way they want it.

On second thought though, not. This just would add *another* thing to
think about in the already complex process of keyhandling.

More often than not, there is no real technical solution to lacking
user education...

Regards,
Stefan

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