On Saturday 15 March 2008, Kyle Hamilton wrote: > It's rather infeasable to keep the same private key and generate a new > public key. If you keep the private key after the expiration of the > certificate, you can still decrypt messages encrypted to it; thus, if > you generate a new pub/priv pair, you just need to keep the old key, > and use all the keys you have to try to decrypt until one works.
Thanks Kyle, Doesn't what you suggest create a headache? Every time I want to decrypt an old message I sent or I received, or a file, I will need to change the mail client configuration and point it to another private key. Keeping the same key overcomes this problem. Have I got this right? Why is it not feasible to retain the same private key? -- Regards, Mick
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