restoring a key

[David Shaw]

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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:57:15PM +0100, Alex Frenklakh wrote:
> our signature key has expired..
> is there any way to restore this key, extend its expiration date,
> without generating a new one?

Yes.  If it is the main key that expired, you can do:

1) gpg --edit your_key
2) "expire"

Then just follow the prompts.

If it's a signing subkey that expired (probably not), you'll need to
select that subkey with "key the_subkey_number" before you type
"expire".

David

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