-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just to add to what Grant said, if you decide to set a expiration date, make sure it isn't too often. Anywhere from six months to two years is a good range if you ask me, but it's totally up to you; I've set my subkeys to six months. I personally try to update my keyring every few weeks. David Manouchehri On 8/24/2011 1:46 PM, Grant Olson wrote: > On 8/24/11 11:47 AM, Mike Acker wrote: >> given that I have loaded my public key to a key-server ( e.g. >> keys.gnupg.net ) >> >> when i upload information to be merged into my keyblock (e.g. a new user >> ID, revocate certificate, or new expiration date ) >> >> what will cause other GPG users to refresh their copy of my key in their >> keyring? > No. Users need to manually refresh their keys periodically to get changes. > > But people can be lazy about this. One way to force them to refresh is > to have an expiration date that you bump up (for example) every year. > Then after your key expires, they'll need to refresh and get any other > changes as well. > >> >> should I send them a notice? >> > It depends. > > If you revoked the key because it's compromised, then you probably want > to notify important contacts. > > If you add a new UID, for example your new work email, and an existing > associate only contacts you on your personal email, things will keep on > working even if they don't have the new UID. > > If the key expires on someone's local keyring, they'll need to re-fetch > it to get updates. So you could probably do nothing Some people will > refresh automatically when they see the key is expired. Others will > tell you your key is expired, in which case you can tell them they need > to refresh. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOVagKAAoJEBRGiElwwjoZ/oMQALn1jBfNoom2Dz41k7Pw83EB z5bmoQHsgkSALl732qh5LQUqct+sGWutyJT/rUC0CUkVvkfu7QKipeFnO3TbDbE/ qpQtpt5oEJXXD3zJZQ1gozK62ZjSSLHNN4XlliCMnGqwi2J/skSaCXBWnCKGkT6P 8mYNbN3B3vvnx/PJnH/suLde6vCZbX7NWoTdeXu50q7heBjwZThANbUGoUVmhkHK OWsvJSQWf/9PU5YOIp7a/qsjvZlTJDahofaySB7l6g8UKHRfS40dhl9Qrnuu/AQo hmeYB/VQRJmxniXnDvEu1+k5BxMUeEfcalS70Zb51WqHLj80qRbUl23NxMkBdzHP 7E1gYTzITJuC04Q/DqwPg7iI32gCvnFA+aScQZrszr2SG6ecp/GqC6kMuib8lDQ1 cfbUMAU6OINtfo2U7+ySQfMrOzKaLQJdprnooIo0zk59O1/s2Nei+de86l3VGSlN mbyQ3tOpPYtjfApKRl2liWjyFRQJxUlR3k8N3eDikIN1paCY1iSvW4LIVTvcpG67 v98605bR3M0IR9nv8jR3EHMlaKHtym+wDVTOu+pWxrSyw36Hg1rdKlJuDRZHM+uT RYvxJp1O7NJhf2DO7oKSyrVfW035cuxnkNjT42x3JFXatHCmnhev/HSC6YthbMx0 I1fsDBAm4+4hdn3EdAwx =hKBn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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