[keyanalyze-discuss] The web of trust tightens over time

[Jason Harris]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:54:47PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:

> On Monday 04 August 2003 02:49, Jason Harris wrote:
> 
> > With a keyring of any given strong set, someone could easily run
> > "gpg --check-sigs" on it without invoking any mad (programming) skillz.
> 
> And a --check-sigs of *the* strong set would take exactly how long? At least a 
> few days if not weeks is my guess.

David, Werner, would you care to hazard a guess?  20,814 keys are in the
2003-07-27 strong set.  Assume a single 2.x GHz x86 CPU and ~250,000
signatures.

Would splitting such a large keyring help any?  Are there any optimizations
that could be done?

Would the best-case scenario be 20,814 individual keyrings with the key 
being checked located first in the keyring and the signing keys located
in order based on their keyid?

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