doc: gpg: say which date SSH key lifetimes are checked against
The description of gpg.ssh.allowedSignersFile says that Git marks a signature as valid if the signing key was valid at the time of the signature's creation. An SSH signature does not record when it was made, though. When verifying a commit or a tag, Git passes the committer or tagger date to ssh-keygen with -Overify-time, and the valid-after and valid-before options of a key are checked against that date. Say which date is used, and that the signer chooses it. While at it, fix the spelling of "OpenSSH" in the same paragraph. Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Christian Noé Ramos López <chris@nortesoftware.dev> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -70,10 +70,12 @@ A repository that only allows signed commits can store the file
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in the repository itself using a path relative to the top-level of the working tree.
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This way only committers with an already valid key can add or change keys in the keyring.
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Since OpensSSH 8.8 this file allows specifying a key lifetime using valid-after &
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valid-before options. Git will mark signatures as valid if the signing key was
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valid at the time of the signature's creation. This allows users to change a
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signing key without invalidating all previously made signatures.
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Since OpenSSH 8.8 this file allows specifying a key lifetime using valid-after &
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valid-before options. Git validates the signature by checking the committer or
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tagger timestamp is within the validity time range. This does not provide any
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security guarantees as the timestamp can be chosen arbitrarily by the signer.
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But it allows users to change a signing key without invalidating all previously
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made signatures.
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Using a SSH CA key with the cert-authority option
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(see ssh-keygen(1) "CERTIFICATES") is also valid.
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