Add recommendation about KeyPackage expiration #274
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As discussed in #269, KeyPackages must expire to have post-compromise security. Otherwise, if a participant generates a KeyPackage, the attacker compromises the initialization key, and the KeyPackage is used to invite the participant later (say, a year later), the attacker will know the group's epoch secrets despite having compromised the KeyPackage a while ago.
There are hints about KeyPackage expiration in the document, but it is not mentioned explicitly in the section about KeyPackages, hence this PR.