Renewing expired keys

[Lachlan Gunn]

Le 2017-01-18 à 22:48, Miroslav Rovis a écrit :
> On 170115-22:17+0100, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez wrote:
> ...
>> Lastly, revoke the old one if you aren't going to use it publicly anymore.
> Isn't is wrong to revoke a key which you don't consider was compromised?
> If you don't want to use it, it suffices that it is expired, or?

No, compromise is only one reason---there are lots of reason-codes that
can go into the revocation packet, and compromise is only one.
Specificially, "superseded" is such a reason.

Otherwise, if you switch to a new key, people won't know that your old
one is no longer in use.

Thanks,
Lachlan