On 08/25/2011 09:00 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 8/25/11 8:27 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> This sort of situation is one which a better toolset could automate. > > It would seem the proper place for this is to leverage existing system > automation tools, not inventing something new. > > proverbs:~ rjh$ crontab -l > 30 2 * * * gpg --refresh-keys >/dev/null 2&>1 > > You can do equivalent things on Windows with Task Scheduler.
Yes, i do this myself, but with a large keyring, a full --refresh-keys takes ages and thrashes my machine. Also, some people may care that requesting a specific set of keys from a single keyserver providing a way for that keyserver to track them. Having gpg (or some other tool) keep track of when it last updated a given key (and when the key is about to expire) and choose smart times to do updates against a configured pool of keyservers would be a nice thing. Folks interested in this topic may also be interested in parcimonie, which is under active recent development: https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/code/parcimonie/ --dkg
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