key expiration

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Fri Aug 1 16:06:01 2003


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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:39:54PM -0400, CL Gilbert wrote:
> I never got a solid answer to this.  Does anyone know??
> 
> --
> Thank you,

> CL Gilbert wrote:
> | Originally I made my key years ago with pgp.  later imported into gpg.
> | Then I updated the expiration of the main key.  its a DH/DSS pair.  But
> | while gpg seems to think the main key no longer expires, the PGP still
> | shows the original expire date when I import the key from various
> | servers.  I know the servers have updated because they include a new
> | encrypting key since the old encrypting key was expiring with the main
> key.
> |
> | didi I miss something?  Why is my main key still showing as expiring
> | soon as opposed to 'never?'

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2003-July/019636.html

In short, probably a bug in PGP.

David
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