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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 v2 00/11] Major GLEP 63 update; full text
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 13:29:30
Message-Id: 1530797355.921.4.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 00/11] Major GLEP 63 update; full text by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 W dniu śro, 04.07.2018 o godzinie 23∶43 +0200, użytkownik Kristian
2 Fiskerstrand napisał:
3 > On 07/04/2018 11:28 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > > W dniu śro, 04.07.2018 o godzinie 23∶12 +0200, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller
5 > > napisał:
6 > > > > > > > > On Wed, 04 Jul 2018, Michał Górny wrote:
7 > > > >
8 > > > > b. Signing subkey: 1 year maximum
9 > > > > 5. Key expiration date renewed at least 2 weeks before the previous
10 > > > > expiration date.
11 > > >
12 > > > This is crappy as a scheme, since it will make it impossible to keep
13 > > > the expiration date at a constant month and date.
14 > > >
15 > >
16 > > Nobody forces you to prolong it for exactly the same amount, exactly two
17 > > weeks before expiration. The only point made here is to give services
18 > > time to sync rather than the common combo of renewing key once it
19 > > already expired.
20 > >
21 > > Especially, if you follow the recommended scheme below you can easily
22 > > get periodic expiration dates.
23 > >
24 >
25 > As I understand ulm's concern, the issue is with the max 1 year in
26 > combination with this, e.g it effectively prohibits extended a subkey
27 > expiring 2018-12-31 to 2019-12-31 two weeks before, since that exceeds
28 > one year maximum
29 >
30
31 We could say 'N year(s) + 2 weeks' but it would be kinda silly. Given
32 that people are unhappy about one year anyway, let's defer this one for
33 now.
34
35 --
36 Best regards,
37 Michał Górny

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