On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 08:32:34PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2005 4:53 pm, Alex L. Mauer wrote: > > Yep, I understand the purposes of key signatures. But (unlike with your > > bag/tie analogy), two signatures from the same key don't make a key > > twice as valid. > > If the signature expired, the new signature is needed. However, the > *expired* signature is still useful too as it tells others that the > key was also valid at the earlier date. Often, an expired signature > only exists because the key originally had an expiry date.
How useful is that, really? Seriously - an expired signature may be interesting to someone who can infer from it that a key was valid earlier, but that doesn't really have any connection to the important question of is the key valid *now*. I'd be quite content if useless signatures were stripped from my key. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
