On Jun 14, 2010, at 7:58 PM, MFPA wrote: > On Monday 14 June 2010 at 5:50:32 PM, in > <mid:4c165dd8.5020...@fifthhorseman.net>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > >> Network or keyserver failures during an auto-refresh >> should be accepted and the rest of the operation should >> continue (though the last-refreshed time shouldn't be >> updated). > >> What if the network and keyserver are both available, >> but the keyserver has never heard of the key in >> question? > > Same as Network or keyserver failure: there is no available > auto-update, so warn and continue with the requested operations.
The danger here is that it might take a long time (minutes+) to realize that the keyserver and/or network wasn't going to cooperate. This could seriously slow down many GPG operations. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
