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6.11) I get "gpg: waiting for lock ..."
6.12) Older gpg's (e.g., 1.0) have problems with keys from newer gpgs ...
6.13) With 1.0.4, I get "this cipher algorithm is deprecated ..."
- 6.14) I still have a problem. How do I report a bug?
- 6.15) Why doesn't GnuPG support X509 certificates?
+ 6.14) Some dates are displayed as ????-??-??, why?
+ 6.15) I still have a problem. How do I report a bug?
+ 6.16) Why doesn't GnuPG support X509 certificates?
7. ADVANCED TOPICS
7.1) How does this whole thing work?
@@ -665,7 +666,15 @@ in it - why?
"deprecated". Ignore this warning, more recent versions of gpg are
corrected.
-6.14) I still have a problem. How do I report a bug?
+6.14) Some dates are displayed as ????-??-??, why?
+
+ Due to constraints in most libc implementations, dates beyond
+ 2038-01-19 can't be displayed correctly. 64 bit OSes are not
+ affected by this problem. To avoid printing wrong dates, GnuPG
+ instead prints some question marks. To see the correct value, you
+ can use the options --with-colons and --fixed-list-mode.
+
+6.15) I still have a problem. How do I report a bug?
Are you sure that it's not been mentioned somewhere on the mailing
lists? Did you have a look at the bug list (You'll find a link to
@@ -674,7 +683,7 @@ in it - why?
list. Otherwise, use the GUUG bug tracking system
http://bugs.guug.de/Reporting.html.
-6.15) Why doesn't GnuPG support X509 certificates?
+6.16) Why doesn't GnuPG support X509 certificates?
GnuPG, first and foremost, is an implementation of the OpenPGP
standard (RFC 2440), which is a competing infrastructure, different