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Re: long-term GPG signing key
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Werner Koch)
Tue Jan 17 10:17:15 2006
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From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
To: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com>
Cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>,
Ian G <iang@systemics.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:06:01 +0100
In-Reply-To: <d4f1333a0601112248u31623f05j70cd25fd8b66b2df@mail.gmail.com>
(Travis H.'s message of "Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:48:05 -0600")
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:48:05 -0600, Travis H said:
> All it really does is crudely limit the quantity of data sent under
> that key, which is little to none anyway.
And it has the advantage that people will stop sending encrypted mail
to this key after the expiration date. Comes handy if you forgot your
passphrase or lost physical access to the key.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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