Re: epg and expired recipient keys

[Michael Piotrowski <mxp@dynalabs.de>]

On 2007-02-24, Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> wrote:

>> GnuPG automatically selects the right key to use, and avoids the
>> expired ones.
>> 
>> If this is a bug in epg, I'd think that someone must have run into it
>> before--or could this be a local problem?
>
> I had the same problem and discussed this with Ueno.  The reason is
> that epg uses --list-keys to get a list of macthing recinpients and
> picks the first one.  This is obviously not correct, as it should skip
> all revoked and expired keys.  

I thought so :-)

> However, as this is a general problem I am thinking about adding a new
> list mode which selects a useful key the same way gpg does when called
> directly with -r.  I have not come to a conclusion as there are valid
> reasons for MUAs to do their own selection.  For example a MUA might
> keep a list of former contacts and use a fingerpritn directly to
> select a key.

Hmm, while this is perhaps convenient, I'm not sure whether it is
really needed: As far as I can see, --list-keys already gives the
necessary information, and it seems to be trivial to check for "e",
"r", etc. in the appropriate fields.  But maybe I'm missing something.

Greetings

-- 
Michael Piotrowski, M.A.                               <mxp@dynalabs.de>
Public key at <http://www.dynalabs.de/mxp/pubkey.txt>