Re: [PATCH] Remove keys that expired in 2025

Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:15:27 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove keys that expired in 2025
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Hello Konstantin,

[dropped a few addresses from Cc: that bounced before]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 04:51:16PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 10:20:20AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig wrote:
> > there are three keys with UIDs that I think Konstantin invented. i.e.:
> >=20
> > Bothersome Borer <[email protected]>
> > Confounding Cockroach <[email protected]>
> > Aggravating Aphid <[email protected]>
> >=20
> > Not sure what they are used for, but I guess Konstantin knows if they
> > can/should go away.
>=20
> I'm slowly going through my backlog -- thank you for your patience. This
> patch no longer applies, I think because some keys actually got updated s=
ince
> then.

Yeah, just skip the changes to the key files that don't apply any more
(together with the respective changes to graphs/ and .keyring).

You can check your result against
8e5424c89f5602904e308e89cc8bd49fe3f92600 that is contained in

	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ukleinek/pgpkeys.git master

Tell me if a resend of the updated change helps you.

> To explain what the above ones are for, they are used by remail:
> https://korg.docs.kernel.org/remail.html
>=20
> The keys are created as needed with a 5-year expiry, so they can indeed be
> removed now.

OK, then the patch should be fine and doesn't need an update.

Best regards
Uwe

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