Re: [openpgp] rfc3880bis - hard expiration time

On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 16:23 +0200, Dominik Schuermann wrote: 
> I am not arguing from a user's perspective, I am arguing from the
> perspective of an implementor of the standard. More features, more
> complexity.
Well... I don't think that this adds *that* much more complexity... it's
just one more field that needs to be set and read out...


> I want to see a use case before we put something in the
> standard that everyone MUST implement.
Please have a look at my previous posts on that matter, I already gave
some possible usage scenarios respectively "attacks".


> > > For me soft expiration is a way that prevents the usage of keys
> > > after a certain amount of time
> > As I've outlaid before, it doesn't really prevent this.
> Please read my email again. It does not prevent it when you consider
> an attacker, but we are not talking about an attack scenario here.
Well but that's what needs to be talked about ^^

>  If
> you think we are talking about an attack scenario, I like to here what
> hard exp can do for us.
See previous mails.


Cheers,
Chris.

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