key expiration

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Fri Aug 1 17:53:02 2003


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On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:59:15AM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:43:36AM -0400, CL Gilbert wrote:
> > I just removed all of my subkeys from this key.  Its still showing the
> > same expiration date in PGP.  Where could it be getting the date from?
> > Can the top key expire?
> > 
> > PGP shows it as DH/DSS, size 1024, created 9/14/02, expiring 9/14/03
> > 
> > Where else could the date be stored here?  this is a key pair right? but
> > without a sub key!?
> > 
> > Just trying to dig deeper.
> 
> Send me a copy of this shortened key exported from PGP.  I want to
> make sure that what I am seeing is exactly what you have, so I cannot
> get it from the keyserver.

Okay, I looked at it, and your problem seems to be a 1-year key
expiration date set on the photo ID.

That said, I don't know why PGP is using that particular expiration
date since there are later self-sigs that give a 10-year expiration
date.  My copy of PGP (8.02) shows it correctly as 10 years.

David
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