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Need option to specify the creation time
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Description

An option to allow creating OpenPGP keys and subkeys with a given timestamp
would be useful. It is unlikley that such an option makes sense for gpgsm as a
CA will probably reject or ignore those attributes anyway.

While we are at it, we should make sure that the self-signatures are written
with a timestamp close to the time given in the keys creation time. This is too
avoid leaking information about the used platform.

Details

Due Date
Oct 31 2008, 1:00 AM

Event Timeline

Done in the SVN trunk and to be released with GnuPG 2.0.5.
The option to set the creation date is opnly available through
the unattended key generation; see DETAILS (Creation-Date).
All timestamps used during key generation are now the same. Withy card keys the
current scdaemon needs to be used to achive this for cards.

Will be ported to 1.4. later.

werner set Due Date to Oct 31 2008, 1:00 AM.Sep 30 2008, 8:28 PM
werner added a project: backport.
werner removed projects: backport, In Progress.

Done in svn 4991.