Key import - time warp or clock problem

osxvoodoo osxvoodoo@hotmail.com
Tue Sep 2 11:24:01 2003


After badgering one of my cohorts for over a year, I finally managed to 
get him to start using GPG - Mac OS X. I spent the better part of the 
day today getting everything together for him - so he would have an 
easy time installing GPG. He is quite the newbie and gives up VERY 
easy... so all it would take would be one "type this in the terminal" 
and he would give up on the whole process. Just the facts - I have no 
control. He is in a remote location so I can't help him locally.

Anyway - I created a nice little shell script to get him up and 
running, help him generate his key, send it to the keyserver, then 
retrieve my key from the server. All went well with the script (I 
tested it several times and have over 10+ years of PGP/GPG experience). 
So I go and retrieve his key from the keyserver, and first of all it 
won't import. I keep getting this error:

key XXXXXXX has been created 4133 seconds in future (time warp or clock 
problem)

After messing with it a bit I managed to get it imported. Then I 
started looking at the key and noticed he has no subkey. This is what I 
get if I do a --list-keys

gpg: key XXXXXXXX has been created 4133 seconds in future (time warp or 
clock problem)
pub  1024D/XXXXXXXX 2003-09-01 Mr. Name <mrname@isp.com>

Thats it - no subkey listed!

So what now... how do I get him out of this mess with the least amount 
of trouble on his end?
What needs to be done to his key?