Eric Poellinger wrote on 12/3/13, 6:22 PM: > This is the key before issuing the 'expire' command: > > pub 2048R/4A4DBDC7 created: 2012-01-13 expires: 2014-01-12 usage: SC > trust: ultimate validity: ultimate > sub 2048R/0C0305EC created: 2012-01-13 expires: 2014-01-12 usage: E > > > I did a 2 year expiration and the master key (4A4DBDC7 ) was updated as > expected (to 2015-12-03) > > PRIMARY QUESTIONS - I am uncertain about the sub-key. When I attempt to > 'expire' it the date does not seem to change. Maybe you cannot expire a > sub-key? Maybe I do not need to care because we are not using it in our > encryption commands?? FYI, this key is only with one trading partner, > so managing the change is not difficult.
I had the same problem a short time ago, and solved it with the help of a friend, and this is what I did in MacOSX's Terminal $ gpg edit-key [key ID] [..] Secret key is available, pub 2048R/[key ID] created: [..] expires: [..] usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 2048R/[sub-key ID] created: [..] expires: [..] usage: E Then: > key 1 expire pub 2048R/[key ID] created: [..] expires: [..] usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub* 2048R/[sub-key ID] created: [..] expires: [..] usage: E [note the asterisk after sub, that indicates that this is the key which has been selected for expiry] then again: expiry I got: Changing expiration time for a subkey. Please specify how long the key should be valid. 0 = key does not expire <n> = key expires in n days <n>w = key expires in n weeks <n>m = key expires in n months <n>y = key expires in n years Hope this helps. I don't know whether you can use this method in your system. You seem to be using web-mail with html format. Charly 0x15E4F2EA Mac OS X 10.9 13A603 MacBook Intel C2Duo 2GHz 13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008 . (GnuPG/MacGPG2) 2.0.20 - gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.15 TB 24.1.1 Enigmail version 1.6 (20131006-1849) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users