Problem with faked-system-time option

[Jerome Baum]

> Out of curiosity, as long as we're talking about things that current code will reject, does the 0x50 signature meet the semantics desired here?  This all sounds vaguely notary-like ("I saw this document on such-and-such date") to me, and the intent of 0x50 is a notary signature.  The nice thing about a 0x50 signature is that it is a signature on a signature, so the timestamp service doesn't need to see the document - just the (detached) signature.

My understanding of a notary's job would include "I trust this key to
be valid, in possession only of the person named in the uid, while
that person was in sufficient mental state, not being threatened at
gun-point, ..." -- why should we use a signature type that could be
misinterpreted, when there is a "timestamp" signature type that fits
our needs exactly?

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