Extending Expiration dates of gnupg keys with the private key residing on a smart card
Peter Lebbing
peter at digitalbrains.com
Sun Apr 30 20:34:40 CEST 2017
I saw one detail after I pressed Send. This appears to be a persistent
flaw in my e-mail writing.
On 10/04/17 10:46, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> 3) Edit expiry of subkeys (pubkey):
> gpg --expert --edit-key <KEYID>
> - toggle keys 1, 2, 3 (sign, encrypt, authentication)
> - expire: 1y
> - save
I think keys 1, 2 and 3 are all subkeys; NOT your primary. To extend the
primary, don't issue a "key" command before "expire". Only after that
extend the subkeys.
HTH,
Peter.
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