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Re: Problems with v4 key packet format

2005-09-21 13:35:48

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:18:58PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:

The suggestion was that we put a hard-expiration into a v5 key packet
but keep the existing soft-expiration in the self-signature.

I think, David's subpacket solution accomodates for this without being
overly restrictive. If you want to make sure your key stays dead after
expiration, you put a hashed expiration date subpacket into your key.

-- 
Daniel