* Thomas Roessler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000127 22:37]:
> > Trust me, when you have 499 keys, you really want to avoid
> > checking the validity on all those on a Pentium 233.
> 
> The point is that mutt looks at the key ID and the validity
> information to decide which key to use.

Why not simply list all the matching keys, and then let the user choose
one of those, and then let gpg do the valitify check on it's own?

> Note, BTW, that validity information is generally cached by PGP and
> gnupg.  It's a shortcoming in gnupg (to put it friendly) that huge
> amounts of validity information are calculated each time the program
> is asked for it.
> 
> (BTW, I'm using a Pentium 100, there are 917 keys in my PGP public
> key ring, and things work quite nicely with PGP 2.6.  And yes, the
> web of trust does work for me.)

How about DSS/DH? 95% of the keys around are DSS/DH keys.

Terje Elde
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