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Re: How to update a self-signature?

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Tue, 28 August 2001 07:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: How to update a self-signature?
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From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:47:24 +0200
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:59:00 -0400, David Shaw said:

> sort of sanity checking there.  Either way, I think it's safe to say
> that incorrect clocks are out of the scope of 2440!

Keyserver may want to discard signature which are timestamped more
than a few days in the future.  This should greatly help not to spread
erroneous signatures.

  Werner

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