Re: GPG key loading takes too long

Joachim Breitner writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 21.01.2007, 19:31 -0500 schrieb Sam Varshavchik:
>> > I just had a look at cone and it looked very promising, especially the
>> > IMAP support. One thing though annoys me a lot: When I start it, it
>> > reads in all the keys in my public GPG keyring, which is rather large,
>> > delaying the start-up too much. Can this be somehow cached, or loaded in
>> > the background, or something else?
>> 
>> Feel free to submit patches.
> 
> I investigated the issue a bit further: The gpglib passes the
> --list-sigs option to gpg, but does not use the sigs in any way (the
> lines are ignored in dolist_callback). Changing that to --list-keys in
> list.c on line 63 fixes this and makes the start considerably faster:
> 
> -      argvec[1]= secret ? "--list-secret-keys":"--list-sigs";
> +      argvec[1]= secret ? "--list-secret-keys":"--list-keys";
> 
> I hope I didn’t miss anything, but I think this works just fine.

Not quite.  The signatures are shown when a gpg key is selected for 
encrypting or signing.  Although they are for informational purposes only, 
it is an important data that should not be swept under the rug.

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