gpgsm and expired certificates

[Werner Koch]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 22:03, oub at mat.ucm.es said:

> know by the date of the certificate which certificate to use for which
> message?
>
>     -  old for old messages

Note, that there is no need for a certificate for decryption - only the
private key is required.  The certificate is only used to show some meta
information.

>     -  the new for the new messages

Expired certificates are not used and thus a now valid one will be used.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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