Newbie qusetions

[Tim Walberg]

On 01/20/1999 18:06 +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
>>	Matthias Urlichs <smurf at noris.de> writes:
>>	
>>	> That's OK, I don't have a big keyring yet. ;-)
>>	
>>	And Mutt has also problems with big keyrings and pgp; we should find
>>	another solution.  I don't think that loading the complete keyring
>>	(okay, only the user ids some some info) into the memory is a good
>>	idea becuase this way it is not possible to have a central keyring
>>	somewhere.
>>	
>>	
>>	   Werner
>>	
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I'm not extremely familiar with the keyring format, so don't fry me if
this is already there, but I'm thinking it might be useful for the
keyring file to contain a (maybe hash-table-based) central directory,
which would make key lookup and location considerably simpler and faster.
Something kinda like what ZIP files (and other similar archive formats)
use maybe...

				tw





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