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> if a key leaks, all past messages can be decrypted

Not to mention, if you revoke a key (maybe because you lost your laptop and want to be proactive about security), without any authenticated timestamping service in the mix, all past messages and signatures can no longer be trusted, regardless of the revocation date. That's why when you revoke a key on github, all your previous commits' signatures turn red.

I've never understood why no one's succeeded in doing anything about this after all these years.



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