On Tuesday 03 December 2013 23:44:20 Hauke Laging wrote: > Expiration serves two purposes: > 1) Passively revoke a key if you have lost access to the secret mainkey > (i.e. to the key itself or to its passphrase). > 2) Force your communication partners (people are lazy) to update your > certificate from time to time (requires some understanding on their side). > > The length of the validity period is a compromise between higher "security" > and less inconvenience (your own, too).
Sorry for asking a possibly stupid question, but how exactly does a shorter validity period get you more security? Johannes _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
