1994-04-18 - Key Eater Needed

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: cae5042c5b28d9b992fdd4eee7b051b5cf400ba1a18edccb460490d28b592a06
Message ID: <9404180123.AA00302@ah.com>
Reply To: <9404171621.AA16350@hodge.MIT.EDU>
UTC Datetime: 1994-04-18 01:32:01 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 18:32:01 PDT

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 18:32:01 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Key Eater Needed
In-Reply-To: <9404171621.AA16350@hodge.MIT.EDU>
Message-ID: <9404180123.AA00302@ah.com>
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>> One way to expire keys is to simply declare that any old PGP key more
>> than two years old is expired.

>No, this is a bad idea.  Any arbitrary setting of expire time by the
>keyserver is a bad idea.  

The idea wasn't just the keyserver, but PGP itself.  If we set the
time to three years, the earliest that will be is September 1995.  A
future version of PGP can enforce this.

Eric

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• 1994-04-17 (Sun, 17 Apr 94 01:42:55 PDT) - Key Eater Needed - Mike Ingle <MIKEINGLE@delphi.com>
  • 1994-04-17 (Sun, 17 Apr 94 08:02:57 PDT) - Key Eater Needed - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
    • 1994-04-17 (Sun, 17 Apr 94 09:22:02 PDT) - Re: Key Eater Needed - Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
      • 1994-04-18 (Sun, 17 Apr 94 18:32:01 PDT) - Key Eater Needed - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)