Expiry Date

[Michael Nahrath]

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Richard Ibbotson wrote:

> I'd like to update my subkey so that it never expires.  At the moment 
> it looks like this...
> 
> pub  1024D/E233C898  created: 2002-08-01 expires: never  trust:f/f
> sub  2048g/48F969EB  created: 2002-08-01 expires: 2003-08-01
> (1). Richard Ibbotson <richard@sheflug.co.uk>

> Can anyone suggest how to do this ?

Sorry that I can't realy answer your question.

The usual thing people do in your situation is to crate a new, additional
subkey and let the old one expire. If you do it now everybody has another 4
months time to receive your updated key, including the new subkey.

I see another problem with your key. I just downloaded it from the keyserver
'sks.dnsalias.net'.
It seems that the primary key is set to expire as well:

| [michi@localhost]~$ gpg --edit E233C898 check q
|
| pub  1024D/E233C898  created: 2002-08-01 expires: 2003-08-01 trust: -/-
| sub  2048g/48F969EB  created: 2002-08-01 expires: 2003-08-01
| (1). Richard Ibbotson <richard@sheflug.co.uk>
|
| uid  Richard Ibbotson <richard@sheflug.co.uk>
| sig!3       E233C898 2002-08-01   [self-signature]
| 2 signatures not checked due to missing keys

Have you already changed the expity of your primary key locally (by an
additional self-signature) and not exported it yet?

Greeting, Michi


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