Rare condition incompatibility of public key

Avi avi.wiki at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 20:51:43 CET 2008


2008/12/2 <gnupg-users-request at gnupg.org>

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> From: Faramir <faramir.cl at gmail.com>
> To: "gnupg-users at gnupg.org" <gnupg-users at gnupg.org>
> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:38:10 -0300
> Subject: Re: Rare condition incompatibility of public key
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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 it has been superseded by the new one...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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It may remove it from the copy sent, but it won't remove it from
copy stored on keyservers. Goodness knows I've tried to clean my
key a bunch of times, but evidence of my uber-n00bness vis-a-vis
the PGP Global Directory remains to haunt me in perpetuity :D

- --Avi
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