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On 13 February 2013 15:31, Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 01:20:39PM +0100, Michael Weber wrote: |
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>> On 02/13/2013 11:55 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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>> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml |
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>> still no hint what to do on expiration (as every single other "gpg howto"). |
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> It depends. What do you want to do when it expires? |
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> If you don't believe that the key has been compromised -- nobody is |
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> going around using your key falsely -- then you should just "renew" |
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> your key, i.e change the expiry date. |
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> Some that are a bit more paranoid will generate a new key, sign it |
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> with the about-to-expire key -- not the already expired key because |
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> they would never allow that to happen -- revoke the about-to-expire |
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> key, then sync with the key server(s). |
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> This information, by the way, has been blogged about thousands of |
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> times. |
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> -- |
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> Mr. Aaron W. Swenson |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer |
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> Email : titanofold@g.o |
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> GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 |
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> GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0 |
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Correct. I don't think we need a "Gentoo-specific" document for that. |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |
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