On 05/20/18 16:28, Phil Pennock wrote:
> 4. Get together actual MUA maintainers who are users of the GnuPG
>    code-base in a mailing-list and hammer out details of "what should be
>    done about old mail".  Cryptographers have long said to decrypt
>    inbound mail and re-encrypt it to a storage key, which can
>    periodically be rotated, but AFAIK mail-clients don't have sane ways
>    to do this.

What MySQL (from mid-5.7 on) does for tablespace encryption might be of
note here.  MySQL uses a fixed table key for each encrypted InnoDB
table, but encrypts the table keys with a master key which is
periodically rotated.  This allows regular rotation of the master
encryption key that protects all of the table keys, without having to
decrypt and re-encrypt possibly terabytes of table data.


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