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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: robbat2@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 10/12] glep-0063: Make 2-yearly expiration term mandatory
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 06:15:52
Message-Id: 1530857737.869.1.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 10/12] glep-0063: Make 2-yearly expiration term mandatory by Ulrich Mueller
1 W dniu pią, 06.07.2018 o godzinie 07∶43 +0200, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller
2 napisał:
3 > > > > > > On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > > Replace the disjoint 'minimum' and 'recommendation' for expiration
5 > > with a single requirement. Make it 2 years. Also, remove disjoint
6 > > expiration recommendation for the primary key and subkeys since many
7 > > developers fail at implementing that anyway.
8 >
9 > Still NACK. If expiration is exactly 2 years and renewal must happen
10 > 2 weeks before the expiry date, then it is not possible to keep the
11 > same date.
12
13 Did you even read the text? It's 'at most 2 years'. If you renew it
14 every year, you can achieve the desired effect while keeping far ahead
15 of the required schedule.
16
17 > Example: The key will expire at 2018-12-31, so it must be renewed at
18 > 2018-12-17 or earlier. This will make it impossible to keep the same
19 > month and day (unless one would reset it to 2019-12-31, which is only
20 > one year though).
21 >
22 > So please, make it something like 2 years + 3 months.
23 >
24
25 I really see no point in added complexity just so that someone could
26 bend the standard to the limits.
27
28 --
29 Best regards,
30 Michał Górny

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