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trouble importing rsa key
I am having some trouble importing a key to use for verifying security
announcements by my school.

I have compiled and installed the rsa extension

$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.2
Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160

but, whenever I try to import the attached public key, it doesn't make
it into my key ring.

$ gpg --import security.rsa
gpg: public key is 10373 seconds newer than the signature
gpg: key 030FA80D: invalid self-signature
gpg: key 030FA80D: no valid user IDs
gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: w/o user IDs: 1

$ gpg --list-keys | grep 030FA80D
$

pgp2.6 and pgp5.0 were able to use this key to verify a signed
message, but gpg refuses to accept it. Any thoughts?

-kevin
Re: trouble importing rsa key [ In reply to ]
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:16:16PM -0400, Kevin Falcone wrote:
>
> $ gpg --import security.rsa
> gpg: public key is 10373 seconds newer than the signature
> gpg: key 030FA80D: invalid self-signature
> gpg: key 030FA80D: no valid user IDs
> gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg: w/o user IDs: 1

--ignore-time-conflict
GnuPG normally checks that the timestamps asso-
ciated with keys and signatures have plausible
values. However, sometimes a signature seems to
be older than the key due to clock problems.
This option makes these checks just a warning.

--
Rémi
Re: trouble importing rsa key [ In reply to ]
>>>>> "RG" == Rémi Guyomarch <rguyom@321.net> writes:

RG> --ignore-time-conflict

ah, thanks, that fixed it.
Now I just need to convince mailcrypt to use it.

-kevin

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