changing key expiration

Bernhard Kuemel bernhard at bksys.at
Thu Aug 27 21:30:37 CEST 2009


Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Hi Berhnard--
> 
> On 08/27/2009 01:36 PM, Bernhard Kuemel wrote:
>> It appears the key expiration is part of the signatures. Will the most
>> recent signature have the effective expiration date?
> 
> yes, the most recent certification made by the same issuer on a given
> subject is considered to supercede all other signatures by the same
> issuer over that subject (in your case, this is a self-signature, so the
> issuer is the same as the subject).

Ok, great. Could I also sign my key after it expired with a new
expiration period to revive it?

Bernhard




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