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> Long term keys are almost never what you want. If you keep using a key, it eventually gets exposed. You want the blast radius of a compromise to be as small a
by Leace 7y ago
> Long term keys are almost never what you want. If you keep using a key, it eventually gets exposed. You want the blast radius of a compromise to be as small as possible, and, just as importantly, you don’t want users to hesitate even for a moment at the thought of rolling a new key if there’s any concern at all about the safety of their current key.
Interestingly some protocols such as roughtime use the same tactic as OpenPGP: one long-term identity key that can be kept offline and rotation of online (short-term) keys signed by the long-term key. Details here: https://roughtime.googlesource.com/roughtime/+/HEAD/PROTOCOL.md#certificates https://roughtime.googlesource.com/roughtime/+/HEAD/PROTOCOL...
- lvh 7y agoIf you squint enough, that’s how CAs work too.