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Re: [openpgp] v5 in the crypto-refresh draft

2021-06-07 05:22:55
On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 01:13:50PM +0300, Nickolay Olshevsky wrote:
On 04.06.2021 09:42, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
I've been reviewing the changes in draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-03.
I have concerns about most of the "v5" features currently incorporated.

...

Hi,

It's slightly out of the original questions, but still related to the v5
keys/sigs.

Basically, given that year 2038 will come in 17 years, and previous RFC 4880
is already 14 years old without any replacement (yet), why v5 keys and
signatures still have 32-bit creation time?

Or did I miss some discussion regarding this?

Obviously not speaking for any of the people who actually work on this,
but you need to keep in mind that the time field is defined as
an *unsigned* 32-bit number, so we'll have another 68 years after the
year 2038 to take care of that.

G'luck,
Peter

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