New year, updated keys.

Tue 03 January 2012

GnuPG LogoI run a SKS key server and watch my daily numbers to see how many keys get updated, etc.  Being a numbers guy I wondered how many people, like me, update their GPG keys, I specifically update the expiration date and generate new encryption keys annually, at the beginning of the new year.  Apparently I'm not alone:

Daily Histogram

Time New Keys Updated Keys
2012-01-02 266 210
2012-01-01 251 6422
2011-12-31 191 99
2011-12-30 287 133
2011-12-29 326 112
2011-12-28 297 154
2011-12-27 290 133
2011-12-26 248 84
2011-12-25 146 55
2011-12-24 157 81
2011-12-23 216 99
2011-12-22 330 152
2011-12-21 326 146

Specifically these keys were updated at 1700Z.  I'm not sure I have the ability to see which keys were updated but I'd love to know how that happened.

By Sparks, Category: Information Security

Tags: OpenPGP / SKS /