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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 00/11] Major GLEP 63 update; full text
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 21:31:42
Message-Id: robbat2-20180704T212716-912324118Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 00/11] Major GLEP 63 update; full text by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 11:12:31PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > >>>>> On Wed, 04 Jul 2018, Michał Górny wrote:
3 >
4 > > b. Signing subkey: 1 year maximum
5 >
6 > > 5. Key expiration date renewed at least 2 weeks before the previous
7 > > expiration date.
8 > This is crappy as a scheme, since it will make it impossible to keep
9 > the expiration date at a constant month and date.
10 Why will it make things difficult?
11
12 In the expire prompt, you CAN specify an exact expire date or timestamp.
13
14 Only catch is that if I was doing it 2 weeks before, I'd want to push it
15 out another year or 6 months (depending on what), so it would briefly be
16 valid for 54 weeks.
17
18 --
19 Robin Hugh Johnson
20 Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer
21 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
22 GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
23 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136

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