Problem with key showing up as expired...

[David Shaw]

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On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 08:47:21AM -0800, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
> * Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> [2003-08-22 22:22]:
> > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:10:05 -0800, David J Weller-Fahy said:
> > > (as usual) I'm wrong, but in this particular case the main key was
> > > created 2003-08-05 and expired on 2003-08-07.  However, there is a
> > > subkey that was created on 2003-08-05 and expires on 2009-03-08?
> >
> > The expiration date of the primary takes precedence.
> 
> Understood.  Is it normal for the primary key to have expired, but the
> sub key to still be valid?

It depends on how the key was set up by the key owner.  It's certainly
not unusual.

David
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