Hello, This is a retake of a stackexchange.com question, wheree so far noone chimed in ... http://stackoverflow.com/q/43296285/2103880
I had setup a working smart card setup, where the local key ring solely contained public subkeys and secret keys resided on a smart card. Conservatively I set the expiration date to 1 year. The setup worked nicely and as the keys approached there expiration date, I proceeded as follows to attempt to extend their expiration date: 1) Kill running gpg-agent: pkill gpg-agent 2) Import offline master key (backup): gpg --import <KEYID>.master.key 3) Edit expiry of subkeys (pubkey): gpg --expert --edit-key <KEYID> - toggle keys 1, 2, 3 (sign, encrypt, authentication) - expire: 1y - save 4) Remove secret master keys: gpg --delete-secret-keys <KEYID> As a result the keys remain unavailable (expired?) to all means I intent to use them with (kmail/kgpg/kleopatra, evolution/seahorse, etc.). Where did I go wrong and how may I recover? Thanks for any pointers. Sincerely, Joh _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
