Future Time, --ignore-time-conflict doesn't work!

[David Shaw]

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On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 05:36:37PM +0930, jonathan soong wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am currently experiencing a problem with future-created keys and was 
> wondering if there was a work around.
> 
> Any help would be most appreciated.
> 
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> The Problem:
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> e.g.
> Step 1. Comp A has a future time (110 seconds in this example) - it 
> generates a key and sends it to the Keyserver.
> 
> Step 2. Comp B imports Comp A's key from the keyserver:


> Step 3. Comp B then tries to use Comp A's key to encode something
>    $> /usr/bin/gpg  --ignore-time-conflict  --homedir gpg -e  -r  	
>       ABA2D44E
>    $> gpg: ABA2D44E: skipped: unusable public key
>    $> gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: unusable public key
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> 
> Is this correct behaviour? Shouldn't the '--ignore-time-conflict' flag 
> in step three allow it to encode anyway?
> 
> In the above example, the key was 110 seconds in the future (see step 
> 2), after 110 seconds, step three is successful.
> 
> What is the point of the "--ignore-time-conflict" in this situation? It 
> doesn't seem to do anything.. :(

Hmm.  I can't duplicate the problem, so I need more information.  What
version of GnuPG is this?  What kind of key is 0xABA2D44E?  What
happens if you do the same thing with --ignore-valid-from set?

David
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