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| author | Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> | 2008-08-11 10:08:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> | 2008-08-11 10:08:08 +0200 |
| commit | ac5c3fab300b18fa7013483e243e1becf699b69f (patch) | |
| tree | a402aff3fa64f5b8494b49f3bace7e1180ca33df /doc | |
| parent | Fix APDU buffer problem under MAC OS. (diff) | |
| download | gnupg2-ac5c3fab300b18fa7013483e243e1becf699b69f.tar.xz gnupg2-ac5c3fab300b18fa7013483e243e1becf699b69f.zip | |
Cehck for expire date overflows.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/DETAILS b/doc/DETAILS index 1dd9f5569..a74c0e907 100644 --- a/doc/DETAILS +++ b/doc/DETAILS @@ -839,10 +839,16 @@ The format of this file is as follows: The 3 parts of a key. Remember to use UTF-8 here. If you don't give any of them, no user ID is created. Expire-Date: <iso-date>|(<number>[d|w|m|y]) - Set the expiration date for the key (and the subkey). It - may either be entered in ISO date format (2000-08-15) or as - number of days, weeks, month or years. Without a letter days - are assumed. + Set the expiration date for the key (and the subkey). It may + either be entered in ISO date format (2000-08-15) or as number + of days, weeks, month or years. The special notation + "seconds=N" is also allowed to directly give an Epoch + value. Without a letter days are assumed. Note that there is + no check done on the overflow of the type used by OpenPGP for + timestamps. Thus you better make sure that the given value + make sense. Although OpenPGP works with time intervals, GnuPG + uses an absolute value internally and thus the last year we + can represent is 2105. Creation-Date: <iso-date> Set the creation date of the key as stored in the key information and which is also part of the fingerprint |