Odd key

[L. Sassaman]

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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Remi Guyomarch wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 10:58:30PM -0500, L. Sassaman wrote:
> > 
> > Hi folks!
> > 
> > For some reason, 0x6FFC5075 will not import to my keyring. (It is on all
> > the public servers... it is an RSA key, self-signed.
> > 
> > rabbi@thetis:/usr/home/rabbi$ gpg --recv-keys 0x6FFC5075
> > gpg: requesting key 6FFC5075 from horowitz.surfnet.nl ...
> > gpg: public key is 7999 seconds newer than the signature
> > gpg: key 6FFC5075: invalid self-signature
> > gpg: key 6FFC5075: no valid user IDs
> > gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
> > gpg: Total number processed: 1
> > gpg:           w/o user IDs: 1
> > rabbi@thetis:/usr/home/rabbi$
> 
> :public key packet:
>         version 3, algo 1, created 901704480, expires 0
> [...]
> :signature packet: algo 1, keyid FC56E2116FFC5075
>         version 3, created 901696481, md5len 5, sigclass 10
> 
>                signature   public key
>                ---------   ----------
>                901696481 < 901704480
> Wed Jul 29 09:14:41 1998 < Wed Jul 29 11:28:00 1998

What exactly did you do to get this to display?
 
> 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 ?

Would be nice.
 

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L. Sassaman

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