Recently I let my GPG keys expire. I noticed this when I was working on a project, and when I went to [automatically sign my commits](/blog/signingcommits/) -- git threw an error at me. Since I was working at the time, I did the not-so-great practice of disabling the signing feature.
Having keys automatically expire is annoying. Though, it does give me a chance to reflect if these keys are still useful to me. Currently I use GPG keys for:
So to me, having a GPG key is still worth it. Now to go about renewing my keys. This post will show how I go about the renewing process itself and what services I update. Mostly for me in the future.
Notice that the two subkeys still have the old expiration date. We'll need to update that as well. We'll need to get their fingergrints with the following command
I currently allow for two ways to query my keys: OpenGPG keyserver and WKD. To update my keys on my own WKD keyserver, I followed the steps in my [tutorial on WKD](/blog/decentralized-pgp-keys-wkd).
For OpenGPG, I followed the instructions on their [usage page](https://keys.openpgp.org/about/usage):
