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On 07/04/2018 11:43 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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> On 07/04/2018 11:28 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> W dniu śro, 04.07.2018 o godzinie 23∶12 +0200, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller |
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>> napisał: |
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>>>>>>>> On Wed, 04 Jul 2018, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>>>> b. Signing subkey: 1 year maximum |
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>>>> 5. Key expiration date renewed at least 2 weeks before the previous |
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>>>> expiration date. |
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>>> |
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>>> This is crappy as a scheme, since it will make it impossible to keep |
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>>> the expiration date at a constant month and date. |
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>>> |
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>> |
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>> Nobody forces you to prolong it for exactly the same amount, exactly two |
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>> weeks before expiration. The only point made here is to give services |
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>> time to sync rather than the common combo of renewing key once it |
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>> already expired. |
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>> |
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>> Especially, if you follow the recommended scheme below you can easily |
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>> get periodic expiration dates. |
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>> |
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> |
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> As I understand ulm's concern, the issue is with the max 1 year in |
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> combination with this, e.g it effectively prohibits extended a subkey |
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> expiring 2018-12-31 to 2019-12-31 two weeks before, since that exceeds |
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> one year maximum |
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> |
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fwiw, this can be mitigated by allowing e.g 1.25 years / 15 months |
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instead of one year. |
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Kristian Fiskerstrand |
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OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net |
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fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3 |
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