Renewing expiring key - done correctly?

Hauke Laging mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de
Wed Dec 4 01:53:46 CET 2013


Am Di 03.12.2013, 19:03:13 schrieb Robert J. Hansen:

> 1.  The attacker can just extend the validity himself.  He's
>     successfully compromised the key, after all.

Sure but it makes little sense to play best practice in one part of key 
management (expiration) and simultaneously worst practice (online mainkey) in 
a much more important part of key management.


Hauke
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