Re: Future time: --ignore-time-conflict and --ignore-valid-from notworking (gpg-1.4.6)

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5 msg	GPG fails to verify clamav
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2 msg	Bug?

Future time: --ignore-time-conflict and --ignor...
\ Bill Gatliff (29 Jan 2007)
. \ Werner Koch (29 Jan 2007)
. . \ Bill Gatliff (29 Jan 2007)

Subject:	Re: Future time: --ignore-time-conflict and --ignore-valid-from notworking (gpg-1.4.6)
Group:	Gnupg-users
From:	Bill Gatliff
Date:	29 Jan 2007

Werner Koch wrote:

>On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:33, bgat said:
>
>
>
>>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
>>
>>
>
>Without a real time clock you should be more concerned about true
>random numbers than _warnings_ like:
>
>

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.
>>
>>
>
>A warning is just a warning and does not aks you to press a key.
>
>

Ok. Then I _really_ don't understand why it pauses and waits for a
keypress...

b.g.

--
Bill Gatliff
bgat

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