a Question about Key Servers

[David Manouchehri]

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Just to add to what Grant said, if you decide to set a expiration date,
make sure it isn't too often.  Anywhere from six months to two years is
a good range if you ask me, but it's totally up to you; I've set my
subkeys to six months.
 
I personally try to update my keyring every few weeks.       
 
David Manouchehri
 
 
On 8/24/2011 1:46 PM, Grant Olson wrote:
> On 8/24/11 11:47 AM, Mike Acker wrote:
>> given that I have loaded my public key to a key-server ( e.g.
>> keys.gnupg.net )
>>
>> when i upload information to be merged into my keyblock (e.g. a new user
>> ID, revocate certificate, or new expiration date )
>>
>> what will cause other GPG users to refresh their copy of my key in their
>> keyring?
> No. Users need to manually refresh their keys periodically to get changes.
>
> But people can be lazy about this. One way to force them to refresh is
> to have an expiration date that you bump up (for example) every year.
> Then after your key expires, they'll need to refresh and get any other
> changes as well.
>
>>
>> should I send them a notice?
>>
> It depends.
>
> If you revoked the key because it's compromised, then you probably want
> to notify important contacts.
>
> If you add a new UID, for example your new work email, and an existing
> associate only contacts you on your personal email, things will keep on
> working even if they don't have the new UID.
>
> If the key expires on someone's local keyring, they'll need to re-fetch
> it to get updates. So you could probably do nothing Some people will
> refresh automatically when they see the key is expired. Others will
> tell you your key is expired, in which case you can tell them they need
> to refresh.
>
>
>
>
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