-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On 08/28/2006 10:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have two questions regarding how to "renew" this key. > 1) Is the correct way to renew the key to add another subkey that expires > in September, 2007, or is there a better way? This wouldn't renew your master key, you have to change expiration date with 'expire' command from --edit-key shell.
> 2) If we do add another subkey that expires in September, 2007, how well > will the two subkeys work together? It's going to be difficult to get > everyone to convert to the updated key in the same day, so we won't be able > to revoke the subkey at the same time we generate the new one. Another > way to say this, we may be encrypting a file with the subkey added, while > one or more organization may be using the old key (without the new subkey) > and one or more organizations may be using the new key (with the new > subkey). Will this work correctly?? Unless you'd specify explicitely to use the old subkey, the most recent one will be used; you can encrypt the message to both subkeys(if not expired). - -- Q.E.D. War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength ICQ UIN: 301825501 OpenPGP key ID: 0x58D14EB3 Key fingerprint: 00B9 3E17 630F F2A7 FF96 DA6B AEE0 EC27 58D1 4EB3 Check fingerprints before trusting a key! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFE83HEH+Dh0Dl5XacRA89rAJd+qlbECQ0HyJ69k6XctlAQX8F3AKCDB/qB gHNulETqkC52SpdZkagOXg== =1EKs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
