Re: [PLUG] key-signing Thursday?

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:40:34PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:28:17PM -0400, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> > I'd like to participate.  Especially if it speeds up the process of reading the
> > plug list's signed emails.  Currently Gabriel's and several others take about 10
> > seconds _per_email_ to process.  That is a pain on big volume days :-D
> 
> I get that too. Not, obviously, with my own, but with every one of
> Mike Leone's. Yours too, actually, but it seems to be because your
> key doesn't live on the keyserver I frequent and it takes a little
> while to figure that out. Mike's I have locally and it *still* takes
> forever to verify.
> 
> I haven't taken the time to track it down, but since it seems to be
> reproducible, maybe we should make something of a group effort and
> at least send a bug report if not a patch.

There are known problems with the speed of key validation with the
current version of GPG.  The next version (currently in beta) is
supposed to have a much improved algorithm.

Walt

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