wdhowe/renew-expired-gpg-key.md

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Renew Expired GPG Key

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Extend your GPG key expiry

Find the ID of the expiring key. Note your key ID.
```
gpg --list-secret-keys
```
Start editing the key.
```
gpg --edit-key KEY_ID
```
View your selected key and subkeys
```
gpg> list
```
Select the primary key
```
gpg> 0
```
Interactively select a new expiry. You'll probably have to unlock your key with its passphrase.
```
gpg> expire
```
Select the primary subkey and repeat the previous expire step.
```
gpg> 1
```
Inspect the resulting expiries
```
gpg> list
```
Save when you're done.
```
gpg> save
```