Over the years, my keyring grew and got rather big. So I did some cleaning and deleted some revoked and otherwise useless certificates.

(If you wonder how, see this script - feedback welcome: https://github.com/ilf/gpg-maintenance/blob/master/gpg-delete-revoked-keys.sh)

This got my keyring down from 4.600 to 1.000 keys:

% kbxutil --stats ~/.gnupg.bak/pubring.kbx | grep -e "Total" -e "openpgp"
Total number of blobs:     4656
              openpgp:     4617
% kbxutil --stats ~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx | grep -e "Total" -e "openpgp"
Total number of blobs:     1041
              openpgp:     1002

But the keybox file didn't get any smaller:

% du -h ~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx ~/.gnupg.bak/pubring.kbx
99M     ~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
99M     ~/.gnupg.bak/pubring.kbx

Why is this?

I really don't understand keybox well enough to answer this myself.

Thanks!

PS: This could probably be updated:

Well, OpenPGP keys are not implemented, gpg still used the keyring file pubring.gpg.

https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/kbxutil.html

--
ilf

If you upload your address book to "the cloud", I don't want to be in it.

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