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Re: [PLUG] how to lose your rights and freedom...
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 06:59:46PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> This is the reason for key expiry. I've never seen anyone expire
> their keys at the necessary frequency to be operable against the US
> federal government (it's have to be weekly at a bare minimum). My
> PGP doesn't expire at all, because all the available keyserver
> software (espcially pks, the most popular) is broken in a way that
> makes it impossible to use keys with multiple subkeys (adding a
> later expiry date to an existing key works by adding another subkey
> to it).
Nit: it's a new self-signature, not a new subkey.
Only one keyserver is broken in this regard. Alas, it is also the
most common (pks, as you say). However, the PGP LDAP keyserver
handles this correctly (ldap://keys.pgp.com), as well as SKS
(http://sks.sourceforge.net).
David
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