Expiration Confusion

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Wed Jul 2 15:23:03 2003


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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 06:57:54AM -0400, CL Gilbert wrote:

> actually the old signature is not deleted.  nothing is ever deleted.
> adding a new signature adds a new expiration date.  but I suppose if the
> *sigining key* expires you are SOL.

This is not correct.  The old self-signature is indeed deleted.  You
are probably thinking of keyservers, which keep the old self-sigs
around.

David
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