Extending Expiration Date of an Already-Expired GPG Key

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 21 February 2009 16:04:21 Robert L Cochran wrote:
> My gpg key expired last month and I didn't notice it till today. I used
> gpg --edit-key to extend the expiration date by a year, then I sent it
> to one of the key servers, subkeys.pgp.net. Is this an acceptable
> practice? Google searches yielded a few comments suggesting that an
> expired key could be revoked and a new key generated. I'm unsure what
> accepted practice is.
>
Easy test - sign a message here and I'll import the key.  If it shows the new 
expiration date you have no problem.

Anne
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