[PATCH 0/7] Remove expired keys, 2024 edition

Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> Tue, 5 Aug 2025 09:59:01 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.linux.keys
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

this cleanup series removes 5 keys and one subkey that expired in 2024.
Also a key that was revoked in 2020 is dropped.

None of the removed keys is part of trust paths to other keys, so there
is no effect on the remaining keys.

I suggest to not apply this series straight away to give the affected
owners the chance to extend the expiry date of their keys and replace
them accordingly.

A bit orthogonal to this series: It is usually recommended to have an
expiry date on PGP keys. Most keys (472 of now 620) don't have an expiry
date, I wonder if that would be sensible to require at least for new
keys added to the keyring. The upside would be that we don't trust keys
that are already long abondoned. E.g. Gentoo requires that for the keys
that are relevant for the project[1].

Currently there are 5 more keys contained in the keyring that expired in
2025:

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	Bothersome Borer <[email protected]>
4C3262CBD285EB87.asc
	Confounding Cockroach <[email protected]>
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	Frank Rowand <[email protected]>
	Frank Rowand <[email protected]>
	Frank Rowand <[email protected]>
	Frank Rowand <[email protected]>
	Frank Rowand <[email protected]>
	Frank Rowand <[email protected]>
	Frank Rowand <[email protected]>
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	Jacek Anaszewski <[email protected]>
	Jacek Anaszewski <[email protected]>
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	Aggravating Aphid <[email protected]>

These are the only keys left that (obviously) don't have a valid trust
path from Linus' key.

Best regards
Uwe

[1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0063.html

Uwe Kleine-König (7):
  Remove expired key of Kieran Bingham
  Remove expired key of Imre Kaloz
  Remove expired key of Eric Dumazet
  Remove expired key of Pravin B Shelar
  Remove expired key of Allison Henderson
  Remove expired signing subkey of Joel Granados
  Remove revoked key of Harald Hoyer

 graphs/034EB370014DF270.svg |  85 -------
 graphs/23863DC3831DB2B1.svg |  96 --------
 graphs/2BE25AAE87E87347.svg | 136 -----------
 graphs/70AA62F3B95C551B.svg | 153 ------------
 graphs/C07AE44466FB6D66.svg | 119 ---------
 graphs/C83EA4603047E9B3.svg | 136 -----------
 keys/034EB370014DF270.asc   | 473 ------------------------------------
 keys/23863DC3831DB2B1.asc   | 345 --------------------------
 keys/2BE25AAE87E87347.asc   | 136 -----------
 keys/5895FAAC338C6E77.asc   |  40 +--
 keys/70AA62F3B95C551B.asc   | 169 -------------
 keys/C07AE44466FB6D66.asc   |  79 ------
 keys/C83EA4603047E9B3.asc   |  71 ------
 13 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2036 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 graphs/034EB370014DF270.svg
 delete mode 100644 graphs/23863DC3831DB2B1.svg
 delete mode 100644 graphs/2BE25AAE87E87347.svg
 delete mode 100644 graphs/70AA62F3B95C551B.svg
 delete mode 100644 graphs/C07AE44466FB6D66.svg
 delete mode 100644 graphs/C83EA4603047E9B3.svg
 delete mode 100644 keys/034EB370014DF270.asc
 delete mode 100644 keys/23863DC3831DB2B1.asc
 delete mode 100644 keys/2BE25AAE87E87347.asc
 delete mode 100644 keys/70AA62F3B95C551B.asc
 delete mode 100644 keys/C07AE44466FB6D66.asc
 delete mode 100644 keys/C83EA4603047E9B3.asc


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