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Greetings all, yes more security stuff, booo Anyway, I recently noticed that Slackware's public key is 1024-bit DSA. I'm not ultra-paranoid, but that's below spec. For comparison, CentOS switched from 1024-DSA to 4096-RSA in 2011 (as of version 6)! Are there any plans for a key upgrade?
I've heard he has one prepared but is waiting for the key servers to accept an expiry date of December 4th, year 292,277,026,596.
Well, that’s not going to happen anytime soon. An expiry date in OpenPGP is stored as an unsigned 32-bit integer representing the number of seconds elapsed since the key’s creation time, so the longest possible validity period for a key is about 136 years.
This is a limitation of the OpenPGP format itself and there’s nothing the developers or administrators of key servers can do about it. Only an update of the OpenPGP format can change the way the format represents time, and there’s no plan for such a change in the upcoming RFC4880bis.
Oh dear, I guess my joke wasn't obvious. Or maybe I'm not getting your jokes.
Haha yeah, I got that year "292,277,026,596" was a joke, just messing around! (and I was trying to make a joke myself about things moving slowly in Slackware world).
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Anyway, I recently noticed that Slackware's 
