Odd key

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Feb 9 15:38:30 CET 2000


On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Remi Guyomarch wrote:

> Wed Jul 29 09:14:41 1998 < Wed Jul 29 11:28:00 1998
> 
> The signature's timestamp is earlier than the public key's timestamp, which
> is a bit odd. But since timestamps can't be trusted anyway, maybe GPG should
> just print a warning ?

You can trust that the person how did the signature or created the key
used this timestamp.  But sure, it is trivial to chnage the system
clock.

The CVS version STABLE-BRANCH-1-0 has now the option
--ignore-time-conflict.  I have not tested it yet, please tell me if
it works.


  Werner



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