Rare condition incompatibility of public key

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 16:38:10 CET 2008


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David Shaw escribió:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:05:24PM +0100, Myckel Habets wrote:

>> The screenshot he showed (the one where my key validated bad) showed
>> still the old expiration date. Is this somewhere stored in the key
>> itself? (it kept showing up even after he removed my public key and
...
> It is stored on the key (in one of the self-signatures of the key, to
> be precise).  The problem is that pgp 6.5.8 doesn't handle expiration
> properly, so it is not understanding that your key (having two
> expiration dates, the original one and the new one) was un-expired.

  Maybe "cleaning" the public key before sending it would help... or am
I wrong? IIRC, the clean command would remove the old signature, since
it has been superseded by the new one...

Best Regards


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