Why expire?

[CL Gilbert]

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David Shaw wrote:
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| I think that's a good description.  There have been suggestions on
| changing the expiration system to an optional "hard" (non-changeable)
| expiration, as the old PGP 2.x keys had, but this looks like it won't
| be happening soon for a few technical reasons.
|
| David

I agree with that too.  In general the less things that are hard, the
less you have to worry about being broken.  Who cares if the date has an
error now, its not that big of a deal.  but make the date hard, and
someone may decide to base some convoluted security model on it.  And
since its supposed to be hard, who can really argue with them?

My favorite part about public key encryption is the 'public' part.  The
less that has to be secure the better I think.




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Thank you,


CL Gilbert
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man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard." Ecclesiastes 9:16

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