Hauke Laging wrote:
> 
> BTW: Would it be a good idea for gpg to suggest the user to check for an 
> updated version of the key (or do it automatically before if configured to do 
> so) if it find an expired subkey? This would probably not work with the GUIs 
> though (but might make the GUI developers offer a similar feature).

Hi, Hauke.

What you are suggesting sounds quite doable.

It sounds like a slight variation of the auto-key-retrieve keyserver-option. An
expired (sub)key could trigger the same code to refresh the key, maybe calling
the option auto-refresh-expired or something similar.

-John


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