>>> Some people labour under the misapprehension that the >>> signature time is significant and has potential legal >>> implications. > >> Why should that be a misapprehension? > > Because the signature time means nothing, unless there is > corroboration. It is trivial to alter a system clock (or to use > software to pass a different time to an app).
Yes, and it is trivial to write a fake date next to my signature. That doesn't mean there are no legal implications. In fact, just as I can commit fraud (under the right circumstances) by writing that fake date on a piece of paper, I can commit fraud by using a fake time-stamp in an OpenPGP signature. Let's summarize: The signature time has potential legal implications. -- Jerome Baum tel +49-1578-8434336 email jer...@jeromebaum.com web www.jeromebaum.com -- PGP: A0E4 B2D4 94E6 20EE 85BA E45B 63E4 2BD8 C58C 753A PGP: 2C23 EBFF DF1A 840D 2351 F5F5 F25B A03F 2152 36DA _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
