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PGP & GPG
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PGP & GPG

by Michael W. Lucas
April 2006
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
6h 28m
English
No Starch Press
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Managing GnuPG Keys 109
Updating Keys
Whenever you add signatures to your personal public key, you
should announce those additional signatures using the same
keyserver you uploaded your key to in the first place. Every
month or so, check your keyring to confirm that the keys you
downloaded previously are still valid and to update your copies
with any additional signatures that your keys have collected.
You can do so with the --refresh-keys option.
# gpg --refresh-keys
gpg: refreshing 31 keys from hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: requesting key D4ED7B9F from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: requesting key ...
...
GnuPG announces the number of keys on your ...
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