bug in option 'ask-sig-expire'

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Sun Nov 6 14:53:03 CET 2005


On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 09:40:38AM +0100, Dirk Traulsen wrote:
> Am 5 Nov 2005 um 17:19 hat David Shaw geschrieben:
> > What happens when you do "gpg --ask-sig-expire --no-force-v3-sigs -s
> > Filename" ?
> 
> Then I get asked for the expiration interval. 
> Is '--force-v3-sigs' a default option? I don't have it in my options 
> file.

Yes, it's the default.  Up until fairly recently, PGP couldn't handle
a v4 signature on data (it only handled v4 signatures on keys).

I'll add a note in the docs about it.

David



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