PGP 6.5.8 ckt,?just say no.

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Wed Oct 29 20:22:39 CET 2008


On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:49 PM, vedaal at hush.com wrote:

> David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
> wrote on Tue Oct 28 17:00:07 CET 2008 :
>
>> Now that is an... interesting key.  It's a V4 (OpenPGP) key with V3
>> (PGP 2.x) binding signature).  GPG won't cross-certify such a key
>> because it is a one-way change.  Once cross-certified, the binding
>> signature will be V4 (OpenPGP).
>
> well, it's a v4 key
> and i'm perfectly happy
> with it having a v4 binding sig ;-)
>
>
>> Note that you can't change the
>> expiration date of the subkey on that key either
>> (for the same reason).
>
> also OK
>
> so,
> is there any way that gnupg *could* do it?
> (i.e.
> --ignore-v3-signature
> --unchangeable-expiration-date
> --cross-certify-just-do-it-override)
>
> or any other really cool undocumented option  ;-)

Unfortunately not.  It's doable via various hackery by modifying the  
GPG source, but there is no feature that will do that.

David



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