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The Case for Short OpenPGP Key Validity Periods


Comprehensive Yet Simple Guide for GPG Key/Subkey Encryption ...

The “short” expiration balances the cons (people needing to get an ... You'll be prompted on the expiration period. Example: gpg ...

Hands-on Guide on GPG Keys - The Geeky Way

But comments are used to distinctly identify a key, in case you have multiple GPG keys. ... Enter validity period. (e.i "2y"); Confirm your ...

OpenPGP Message Format - IETF

The validity period of the key. This is the number of seconds after the key creation time that the key expires. If this is not present or ...

4. Certificates - Notes on OpenPGP

OpenPGP fundamentally hinges on the concept of “OpenPGP certificates,” also known as “OpenPGP public keys.” These certificates are complex data structures ...

RFC 9580: OpenPGP

Key Expiration Time. (4-octet time field)¶. The validity period of the key. This is the number of seconds after the key creation time that the key expires.

Key Management - Enigmail

Key validity will show you whether a key has expired or has been revoked. For the key pair that you just created, validity should display "ultimate". You rely ...

An Analysis of 5 Million OpenPGP Keys

A version 3 Public. Key Packet contains the version number 3, the time the key was created, the validity of the key in days, the algorithm ID ...

Pretty Good Privacy - Wikipedia

... PGP systems cannot decrypt, even with a valid private key. Therefore, it is ... There are shorter ways of referring to PGP keys. Archived from the ...

Anatomy of a GPG Key - Dave Steele's Blog

The additional keys are “subkeys” in that they achieve their web-of-trust validity by way of the primary key. Public key - This post is working ...

RSA Key Sizes: 2048 or 4096 bits? - Daniel Pocock

Many types of public key cryptography, such as X.509, offer an expiry feature. This is not just a scheme to force you to go back to the certificate authority ...

An abridged guide to using ed25519 PGP keys with GnuPG and SSH

Our master key will be created for certification with no expiration date. This is justified by the fact that the certification key will be ...

Key Distribution in PGP - Koc Lab

It is unsafe to simply assume that a certificate is valid forever. In PGP, certificates are created with a scheduled validity period: a start date/time and an.

Gpg4win Compendium -- 7 Creating a certificate

In the certificate option dialog, click on [Create personal OpenPGP key pair]. ... period between each key stroke. You can also continue working with ...

Thunderbird, RNP, and the Importance of a Good API - Sequoia-PGP

Since the key's expiration time is stored on the binding signature, I, an OpenPGP expert, understand this to mean that the call to ...

draft-dkg-openpgp-abuse-resistant-keystore-06 - IETF Datatracker

it is willing to accept searches by short key ID, not just fingerprint¶; it is ... key signature-based certificate expiration or other OpenPGP properties.

"Change Validity" sometimes ignores subkey when extending validity

... gpg --quick-set-expire ... key" means up to +/-10 seconds different expiration dates. The normal use case is primary key ...

How to manage GPG keys across multiple systems? - Super User

I want to use GnuPG on three computing devices: a Linux PC, a Linux laptop, and an Android phone. The fundamental use case is encrypting/decrypting email ...

Change History - Gpg4win

... OpenPGP key. [T6155]; Kleopatra: Do not crash when closing details widget ... validity period for new keys. (T5864); Kleopatra: Configuration of default ...

GnuPG - Gentoo Wiki

In the case of a subkey, setting an expiration date can help with security because if its private key is leaked, the public key will eventually expire, ...

Open Identity Certification With OpenID Connect | OIDC - IEEE Xplore

PGP key is not needed, as the validity of the key is already ... (short) validity periods for ICTs. We also discussed how to mitigate ...