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Bug? or misuse?
Hi.

I seem to find a behaviour that I cannot understand. What I do:

mss@despair$ gpg --gen-key

As result I get a pair of keys for Test User. I should note that I specified
2y (2 years) as a period of validness for this key.

mss@despair$ gpg --edit-key "Test User"
gpg (GNUPG) 0.3.5; Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
Secret key is available.

pub 768G/384A9226 created: 1998-09-16 expires: never trust: -/u
(1) Test User <test@despair.transas.com>

Command>

Why it shows "never" for date of expiry?

TIA,

--
Mike
Re: Bug? or misuse? [ In reply to ]
Michael Sobolev <mss@despair.transas.com> writes:

> Why it shows "never" for date of expiry?

It's on my todo list: expiration time does not yet work with v4
packets: The time is now stored with the self-signature and not
anymore with the key. An advantage of this may be, that you are able
to chnage this time.

I'll fix it in the next release. This will be 0.4 because we will
have 3DES then - the last missing part needed for OpenPGP.


Werner