Re: new pgp key server

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:02:11PM +0200, Max Addler wrote:

> Chris Kuethe schrieb:
> >On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Max Addler wrote:
> >>it sais
> >>[Mon Sep 13 20:22:51 2004] kd_add: completed with error
> >>database add failed: Error decoding keyblock
> >>[Mon Sep 13 20:22:51 2004] kd_close: completed successfully
> >That is normal; PKS was loading keys, and found something it
> >didn't like, 
> > but kept going anyway.

Actually, no, it stops processing the keydump when it can't decode the
next packet.  Had it "kept going anyway," you'd see more messages and
some stats when the file completed.

> >I've switched to SKS (away
> >from PKS).

Indeed.

> I am still downloading the keydump files. They sum up to about 2.4GByte. 

Each file will stop loading when pks[client] hits a new-format packet or
other data it can't decode, so you really want a more pristine pks keydump.

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