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the_data_nerdtoday at 3:22 AM0 repliesview on HN

Rotation protects one threat model, not both. A broken signing key five minutes old is one forged-window. Harvested ciphertext in someone's archive does not care when you deleted the session key. Rotate the signer, but put xaes-256-gcm on the payload if you want the bytes safe ten years out.