On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:52:33 -0700 (PDT), "Hal Finney" said:
be better if a dead key would stay dead. Expiration date and creation
date would be better placed in the key packet, IMO (as they were with
V3 keys).
We discussed this issue a long time ago and came to the conclusion
that both kinds of exiration dates make a lot of sense. Prolonging
the expiration time is something what quite some users are doing now
on a regular basis. If nothing else it helps against a lost
passphrase.
The suggestion was that we put a hard-expiration into a v5 key packet
but keep the existing soft-expiration in the self-signature.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner