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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: robbat2@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 00/11] Major GLEP 63 update; full text
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 21:43:38
Message-Id: 1fc335b8-5874-2f9b-7dea-57a7f946a62f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 00/11] Major GLEP 63 update; full text by "Michał Górny"
1 On 07/04/2018 11:28 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > W dniu śro, 04.07.2018 o godzinie 23∶12 +0200, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller
3 > napisał:
4 >>>>>>> On Wed, 04 Jul 2018, Michał Górny wrote:
5 >>> b. Signing subkey: 1 year maximum
6 >>> 5. Key expiration date renewed at least 2 weeks before the previous
7 >>> expiration date.
8 >>
9 >> This is crappy as a scheme, since it will make it impossible to keep
10 >> the expiration date at a constant month and date.
11 >>
12 >
13 > Nobody forces you to prolong it for exactly the same amount, exactly two
14 > weeks before expiration. The only point made here is to give services
15 > time to sync rather than the common combo of renewing key once it
16 > already expired.
17 >
18 > Especially, if you follow the recommended scheme below you can easily
19 > get periodic expiration dates.
20 >
21
22 As I understand ulm's concern, the issue is with the max 1 year in
23 combination with this, e.g it effectively prohibits extended a subkey
24 expiring 2018-12-31 to 2019-12-31 two weeks before, since that exceeds
25 one year maximum
26
27 --
28 Kristian Fiskerstrand
29 OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
30 fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3

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