I work for a foster care organization and cant decide on how long we should have our Validity period last. These certificates will be used for digitally signing word docs. The problem im running into is we have to keep adopted files for 100 years and all other files for 7 years. We are moving all of our files to electronic format but cant decide how to handle the adoption files. Do we put the validity to 100 years? or shorter? But if it is shorter than how do we manage when employees leave and then the certs become invalid after so and so years. Is that acceptable to have the cert expire but leave the docs published?
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