Changeing the expiry date of a sub key

[Hauke Laging]

Am Mo 16.06.2014, 20:04:14 schrieb john s.:
> Please help me to understand what is going on here when I attempt to
> change the expiry date of a sub key.

> john at erica:~/Desktop$ gpg --edit-key C6A5A9DB

> gpg> expire C6A5A9DB
> Changing expiration time for the primary key.

The command is just "expire".

And as you did not select the subkey with "key 1" before, the expire 
command refers to the mainkey.


> Key is valid for? (0) 5
> Key expires at Sat 21 Jun 2014 07:47:35 PM EDT
> Is this correct? (y/N) y

This does not change anything as the mainkey was already valid for five 
days before the --edit-key.


Hauke
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