Key import on a machine with date moved back

Neal H. Walfield neal at walfield.org
Fri Jan 6 15:36:02 CET 2017


On Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:41:44 +0100,
Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri,  2 Dec 2016 15:18, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:
> 
> > 2.1 does have --ignore-time-conflict, but i agree with you that it might
> 
> Actually all versions have that for many years.  The RIPE requested that once.
> 
> > make more sense to tolerate a "typical" clock skew of a few seconds or
> > minutes by default.
> 
> Yes, that is useful.  There is another open bug related to too strict
> validation result for time conflicts and in the course of fixing that we
> should allow for a skew of a few minutes.

I want to make sure that this issue is explain in that bug, but after
some searching, but I couldn't find the issue.  Could you point me to
it?

Thanks!

:) Neal



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