Future time: --ignore-time-conflict and --ignore-valid-from not working (gpg-1.4.6)

Bill Gatliff bgat at billgatliff.com
Mon Jan 29 14:31:32 CET 2007


Werner Koch wrote:

>On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:33, bgat at billgatliff.com said:
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>>I have a key that will be imported into a system with no real-time 
>>clock.  On that machine, the system time gets set to the Epoch at 
>>startup, thus the key always looks as though it was created "1169836499 
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>Without a real time clock you should be more concerned about true
>random numbers than _warnings_ like:
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Agreed.  The key was generated on a machine that does have a clock.  The 
signature is done on a machine with a clock.  The machine without the 
clock just has to verify.


>>A lot of Googling and reading the manpage seems to suggest that the two 
>>--ignore- parameters should get me what I'm after, but it doesn't seem 
>>to be the case.  In particular, I don't want to have to press a key when 
>>the warnings are emitted, because this will be an unattended operation.
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>A warning is just a warning and does not aks you to press a key.
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Ok.  Then I _really_ don't understand why it pauses and waits for a 
keypress...


b.g.

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Bill Gatliff
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