On 10/26/17, Wilfred van Velzen pondered and said...
 
 Wv> idea. I have some keys from the early 90's that I don't remember the
 Wv> passwords of, that just take up space on the keyservers, but I can't do
 Wv> anything with.

Same here :)

 Wv> It seems a rather short period.

Agreed... 3 years (see my other reply) may be better

 Wv> If you sign your new key with the old one, there is a web of thrust that
 Wv> goes back to the signers of the old key. But I don't know how that works
 Wv> with expired keys. There is probably less thrust when there are expired
 Wv> keys involved.

Had not considered that, an expired key to my mind is just that so I can't
see why anyone would want to include it in a future key?

 Wv> Whatever period you choose, at least generate revokation certificates
 Wv> and keep them in a save place, so if you loose the passwords of your key
 Wv> you can still revoke them...

I need to learn how to do this and am not sure how to as yet, I'm using a
windows tool paired with the gnupgp ... hmmm

 Wv> And I just read that you can always extend the expiration date on an
 Wv> already expired key, and send that out to the key servers. So there is
 Wv> no reason to not use an expiration date on keys. I think I'm gona set
 Wv> mine to 5 years...

Fair enough :)

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