Re: GPG key loading takes too long

Joachim Breitner writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 23.01.2007, 07:13 -0500 schrieb Sam Varshavchik:
>> Joachim Breitner writes:
>> > 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.
> 
> Hmm, I can’t find it in the program, and neither can I find code that
> parses the gpg output lines that start with "sig". What am I missing?

The fact that they are processed by the default codepath in 
dolist_callback(), in gpglib/list.c.

Try to encrypt the message to a signed public key.  Cone will display they 
key's signature.

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