Key Expiration, need verification please

seidls@schneider.com seidls@schneider.com
Fri Jul 25 22:58:01 2003


Hello,

About six months ago I began working with the GNUPG package for PGP
encryption.  When I first created the my key pair, I set an expiration time
for six months.  Shortly after creating the key pair I decided to update it
to a non-expiring key.  The original six month time frame is almost up, and
I need to know if there going to be any issues using that key pair.

Below is the output from the `--edit-key` option.  I am concerned that the
`sub` record still has the date of 07-28-2003 when it is supposed to be a
non-expiring key.  Can you please explain if that is a valid expiration
time, or if it is somehow left over from the initial key creation.

gpg --edit-key #########
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.1; Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
Secret key is available.

pub  1024D/########  created: 2003-01-29 expires: never      trust: u/u
sub  1024g/########  created: 2003-01-29 expires: 2003-07-28
(1). Scott Seidl <seidls@schneider.com>

Command> toggle

sec  1024D/########  created: 2003-01-29 expires: never
ssb  1024g/########  created: 2003-01-29 expires: never
(1). Scott Seidl <seidls@schneider.com>


Command>
Scott Seidl
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