Re: Type of 'when' in dkim_sig_getsigntime

From: Murray S. Kucherawy <msk_at_blackops.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:00:52 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Nigel Horne wrote:
> The documentation for dkim_sig_getsigntime,
> http://www.opendkim.org/staging/libopendkim/dkim_sig_getsigntime.html,
> says that the type of 'when' is uint64_t *. However dkim.h has it as
> time_t *. I suggest that the choice made in dkim.h is better.

No, actually a time_t is insufficient given that RFC4871 Section 3.5
stipulates that an implementation SHOULD support a timestamp that's at
least 40 bytes long.

dkim.h has it as a uint64_t in the unreleased version, and you're looking
at the unreleased version's documentation.
Received on Wed Apr 27 2011 - 19:01:36 PST

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