Digital Signing

Bryce C plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
25 Sep 2002 17:32:50 -0700


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Yes, you can.  Here's an example from Codie William Masters whose key
expired earlier this year.

pub  1024D/1E14CCC7 2002-02-20 Codie William Masters (aka, Zach Schimke)
<retsamedoc@cox.net>
sub  1024g/313EA0A7 2002-02-20 [expires: 2002-06-02]


gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
gpg: armor header: Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
gpg: Signature made Mon 20 May 2002 02:57:00 PM MST using DSA key ID
1E14CCC7
gpg: Good signature from "Codie William Masters (aka, Zach Schimke)
<retsamedoc@cox.net>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the
owner.
gpg: Fingerprint: 17AE ACB2 2C52 803E EE44  7315 FB37 6713 1E14 CCC7



This should too be signed by me.

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 17:10, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> BTW about key expiration... I guess if you are afraid your secret keys
> could be stolen, or cracked, maybe you'd want to get new ones; but if
> you generate a key which will expire after a given time, then does
> that mean that old emails which were signed with the old key can no
> longer be verified?  Or just that it checks the date of the email as
> part of the verification process (and because the date is in the
> header, which was part of the digest I hope, the date can also be
> verified as being untampered-with)?
>=20
> Mutt always prompts me for my password before signing a message.  Is
> there a way around that?  In a "single sign-on" world, it wouldn't.
> Maybe gpg should be using PAM, which in turn should be using a
> smart-card reader to fetch the keys and passwords?
>=20
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Bryce Chidester
Network Administrator
CoBryce Communications
Bryce AT BryceCo DOT Net
http://www.bryceco.net

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