On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:53:36AM +0100, KELEMEN Peter wrote: > [ Please Cc: answers as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. ] > > I was about to vote when I realized that my GPG key has expired > exactly one year ago. In private communications this didn't pose > a problem, but chaning Debian password for example didn't work. > My question is, how do I get a new key accepted in the keyring > without going through a keysigning hoopla again? In other words, > am I able to get a new key in the ring using my old key somehow?
Typically your key is rendered useless when it expires - it's presumed that you knew what you were doing when you set the expiry, and would have changed the expiry if you'd wanted to keep using it. As a result, your old key will almost certainly not be trusted as a signature on your new key for the purposes of getting your new key into the keyring. So yes, basically you're back to hooplaville. My commiserations. - Matt
