"key expired" from PGP 6

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Fri Apr 4 17:53:01 2003


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On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:02:52PM -0700, Joseph Bruni wrote:
> I have created a key originally with an expiration date. Subsequently, 
> I removed the expiration date on both the primary and sub keys. In GPG 
> 1.2.1, this is working just fine. However, when I try to import the key 
> into PGP 6, PGP is complaining that the key has expired even though in 
> GPG the "expires" shows as "never". Can someone explain what is going 
> on? I have tried to delete the old key from the PGP system an re-import 
> but that does not seem to help.

Without seeing the key in question, I can't be completely sure but I
suspect you have two expiration dates set.  This is normal, and GnuPG
is picking the one that was set most recently.  It seems PGP is
picking the other one....  What happens when you try the key in a more
recent version of PGP?

David
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