Mainkey with many subkeys??

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Tue Dec 9 00:26:30 CET 2014


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On 12/08/2014 10:48 AM, Tomo Ruby wrote:
| I know I could just set a new expiration date but most times it's
| recommended to use a key for two years at the longest.

Why do you think that's true? What threat do you think that using a
key for at most 2 years will protect you against?

Note, I'm not trying to attack you here ... you seem to have absorbed
some bad advice, or at best, advice that is intended for a different
use case. So maybe you could fill us in a bit on how you intend to use
your keys ...

Doug

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