eric@lucii.org on Sun, 19 May 2002 16:20:16 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] GnuPG 1.0.7


BAM!  I just installed 1.0.7 and the signed emails just FLY onto the screen!

I went to my PLUG emails to find the --rebuild-keydb-caches command and I
noticed that the gpg decrypting is already blazing fast.  Should I still run
gpg --rebuild-keydb-caches  ?  


On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:17:16AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:02:35AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > The last two make it sound like the irritation many of us have
> > experienced with it taking a coon's age to verify signed keys *may*
> > go away. Note that I haven't made sure that this is true yet.
> 
> And it works! Woo hoo! Darxus's messages, which used to take as long
> as 10 seconds for me to verify, now pop right up!
> 
> This is after I updated to 1.0.7, then did:
> 
>   gpg --rebuild-keydb-caches
> 
> Then used gpg --edit-key <my key ID> to assign ultimate trust to my
> own key (I'd never explictly used the trustdb stuff previously, so
> you may not all need to perform this step).
> 
> The first time I verified a signature in mutt, gpg automatically did
> a gpg --check-trustdb (it's documented that it will do this when it
> seems to be necessary, though it actually looks like it does it
> based on date... kind of like ext2fs forced fscks ;^>) which took
> a moment (though nowhere near so long as the previous delay). One
> could do an explicit gpg --check-trustdb if one really wanted to.
> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net


Eric
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