Key Eater Needed

Eric Hughes hughes at ah.com
Sun Apr 17 18:32:01 PDT 1994


>> 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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