Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] long GPG keys

2019-02-07 Thread Ineiev
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 02:22:36AM -0500, Ineiev wrote: > > So now a harder question: what should we do? I see three basic > possibilities: > > (0) drop gpg_key completely; > (1) recommend gpg --armor --export --export-options=export-minimal; > (2) convert gpg_key to meduimtext. I went with (2)

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] long GPG keys

2019-02-03 Thread Ineiev
On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 02:24:38AM -0500, Ineiev wrote: > > I thought the same, but it turned out that I'm just not very sociable. > for example, key 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5 exports > to a 84k long file because it has 125 signatures from other people; > with gpg -a --export --expor

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] long GPG keys

2019-02-02 Thread Ineiev
Hello, Bob, Karl; On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 12:48:55PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Ineiev wrote: > > Currently the 'gpg_key' colunm of the 'user' table has the 'text' > > type, this means 64k character limit. Some users attempted > > to register longer GPG keys, and they were truncated. > > Long

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] long GPG keys

2019-02-02 Thread Karl Berry
Longer than 64K! That seems very long to me. Maybe they included a big image. (Knowingly or not.) Maybe it would be better to consistently report an error and reject the upload, for the reasons Bob gave ... -k

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] long GPG keys

2019-02-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Ineive, Ineiev wrote: > Currently the 'gpg_key' colunm of the 'user' table has the 'text' > type, this means 64k character limit. Some users attempted > to register longer GPG keys, and they were truncated. Longer than 64K! That seems very long to me. This feels to me (without looking) that