suggestions surrounding key generating

Frank Tobin ftobin@uiuc.edu
Thu, 9 Nov 2000 05:38:17 -0600 (CST)


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Stefan H. Holek, at 11:51 +0100 on Thu, 9 Nov 2000, wrote:


> 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.
The idea is to let it be a short, but reasonably useful expiration. I think 1 year is a good balance. - -- Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.9.0 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAjoKjKsACgkQVv/RCiYMT6Mu+wCglLzKVYYd5XOg1sxutX+uRvHs HwkAnj9VpRvtidiL1+go0YFt0Wf+a07J =KOAF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Archive is at http://lists.gnupg.org - Unsubscribe by sending mail with a subject of "unsubscribe" to gnupg-users-request@gnupg.org