Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2011, 09:47:57 schrieb Doug Barton: > There's also another element, the expiration date is irrelevant if the > key is actually compromised. If Eve has your secret key she can simply > update or remove the expiration date, and upload the new version of the > public key to the public keyservers.
That's not correct for subkeys and offline mainkeys as the good guys do it. I admit that a subkey expiration date does not make much sense for low security mainkeys but it is quite useful for more secure environments. Hauke -- PGP: D44C 6A5B 71B0 427C CED3 025C BD7D 6D27 ECCB 5814
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