GPG wants to check trustdb every day

[Neil Williams]

On Monday 27 December 2004 3:01 am, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> I'm running version 1.2.4 of gpg, from the Debian's 1.2.4-4 package of
> gnupg.  Several days ago I noticed that gpg suddenly wants to start
> rechecking the trustdb every single day.  Prior to this, it was just
> checking it every month or so.
>
> Here's the output from "gpg --check-trustdb":
>
> % gpg --check-trustdb
> gpg: public key 98645519 is 43099 seconds newer than the signature

When did you import 0x98645519?

From the keyserver output, it would seem that there is an oddity with the 
signatures:
pub  1024R/98645519 1998-10-14 Jeremy Blosser
     Key fingerprint = 1D D8 8E 3C 3E 19 74 EB  2F 70 EA 79 4B 50 D3 B5
sig  0x10  98645519 1998-10-13  [selfsig]
uid                            Jeremy Blosser
sig  0x10  98645519 1998-10-13  [selfsig]

Does removing this key eliminate the check-trustdb problem?

Maybe if the keyholder edits the key (e.g. set the passphrase again (same one, 
just repeat it), his copy of gpg will put a new self-sig on the key to solve 
this problem?

> As far as I know I haven't changed anything.  /usr/bin/gpg was last
> changed on 2004-02-23, and ~/.gnupg/options was changed on 2003-07-30.
>
> I've tried running "gpg --rebuild-keydb-caches" but that didn't help.
> Anyone know what else might be causing this?

I'd blame the key before gpg.

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