On 13 February 2013 15:31, Aaron W. Swenson <titanof...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 01:20:39PM +0100, Michael Weber wrote: >> On 02/13/2013 11:55 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml >> > >> still no hint what to do on expiration (as every single other "gpg howto"). >> > > It depends. What do you want to do when it expires? > > If you don't believe that the key has been compromised -- nobody is > going around using your key falsely -- then you should just "renew" > your key, i.e change the expiry date. > > Some that are a bit more paranoid will generate a new key, sign it > with the about-to-expire key -- not the already expired key because > they would never allow that to happen -- revoke the about-to-expire > key, then sync with the key server(s). > > This information, by the way, has been blogged about thousands of > times. > > -- > Mr. Aaron W. Swenson > Gentoo Linux Developer > Email : titanof...@gentoo.org > GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 > GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0
Correct. I don't think we need a "Gentoo-specific" document for that. -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
