Ohhhh jeeee

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

Using 1.0.1 on a RH61 box, I ran `gpg --update-trustdb --verbose' w/
~/.gnupg containing only a (large) pubring.gpg and this options file:

########################################
force-v3-sigs
escape-from-lines
lock-once
no-greeting
keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net
load-extension rsa
load-extension idea
load-extension tiger
########################################

After about 8 hours, it generated a trustdb.gpg file about half as
long as the one on the box where the pubring was created, and died
with this error:


gpg: Ohhhh jeeee: mpi crosses packet bordersecmem usage: 1408/1408 bytes in 2/2 blocks of pool 1408/16384
Aborted

(While that was going on, I had the original box listing the keys in
that ring.  It took about seven hours to list the 5422 keys.)

As an aside, running update-trustdb on the original box is quick, but
it only seems to reference about 4200 keys, rather than the 5400 that
show up in the listing.  Gpg then complains that the trustdb is corrupt.

-JimC
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