Problem with key showing up as expired...

David J. Weller-Fahy dave-lists-gnupg@weller-fahy.com
Sun Aug 24 02:16:02 2003


* David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com> [2003-08-23 15:06]:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 08:47:21AM -0800, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
> > 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.

Ok... Just seemed a bit odd, because at first (and second) impressions
it seemed that the key was expired, yet he was using it to sign mail.

Well, live and learn. ;]

Regards,
  David