On 9/16/14 9:26 AM, Werner Koch wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:26, d...@fifthhorseman.net said:
i've definitely seen people update their primary key's expiration date
and fail to update the expiration date of their subkey, so they have a
valid cert, but it still can't be used for encryption. So they have to
There needs to be warning in this case. Can you please file a bug?
FWIW, I recently experienced that myself. The combination of knobs
needed to select both the primary and the encryption sub key for
updating the expiration was not intuitive, and I was quite surprised to
see that when I updated the expiration date the first time that the
subkey was not also updated. In fact I would not have known that at all
if I hadn't done 'list-keys' after I edited the key just to be sure.
Doug (It's only paranoia if they're not actually out to get you) :)
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