On 07/20/2010 11:22 AM, Chris Knadle wrote:
> Besides adding an expiration date, during testing I was able to change the 
> expiration date of a newly formed key that had previously been given an one 
> to 
> not having one at all.  I have my doubts concerning whether gpg clients would 
> accept an expiration date extension for a key, though.

All OpenPGP clients i've ever seen do accept expiration date extensions.

> And concerning automated key refreshing, the suggestion from the OpenPGP Best 
> Practices of using the following cronjob has a snag:
> 
>    0 1 * * * /usr/bin/gpg --refresh-keys > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> ... which is that your machine has to be on at 1am for this to run.  I've 
> been 
> trying to find a script that will locally email errors and changes to keys 
> via 
> an anacron job.

anacron would be reasonable.  i don't think the script needs to be fancy.

        --dkg

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