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 Message 299 
 Wilfred van Velzen to Paul Hayton 
 Re: Key expiry 
 27 Oct 17 12:01:21 
 
Hi Paul,

On 2017-10-27 13:00:54, you wrote to me:

 Wv>> It seems a rather short period.

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

They advise 2 years, so your first instinct wasn't so bad. ;)

 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
 Wv>> key you can still revoke them...

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

On the command line it's easy 'gpg --gen-revoke [key number]' and follow the
instructions.

Your windows tool should have a menu option for it, if you right click on your
key, I suppose?


Bye, Wilfred.

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