slow signature verification with certain keys

[Steven Barker]

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I have noticed that verifying the signatures made by certain keys take much
longer than average (45sec to a minute on my P3 550).  One example is the key
used to sign the attached message.  I've examined the author's key as best I
can (not very extensively) but I don't know why it takes so long.

Is there a ligitimate reason it should take much longer to verify his
signatures, or is it a bug?

-- 
Steven Barker                                      scbarker@uiuc.edu
  No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of
  him than he deserves.
  		-- Edgar Watson Howe
GnuPG public key: http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~scbarker/pubkey.asc
Fingerprint: 272A 3EC8 52CE F22B F745  775E 5292 F743 EBD5 936B

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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:35:15 +0200
From: Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
To: Steven Barker <scbarker@uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: notifications from the ddts to the debian package maintainer
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:20:29PM -0500, Steven Barker wrote:
> This has nothing do do with the subject of your message about the transla=
tion.
>=20
> I've noticed that when Mutt tries to verify your's GnuPG signature, it ta=
kes
> a very long time (often about a minute) before gpg returns, saying that it
> is a good signature.  Do you know why this is?  If not, I'd like to forwa=
rd
> one of your messages to the GnuPG devel list and ask there, as long as you
> don't mind being an example...

please make this.=20

I know the problem and I have the same problem with some other keys
(from others).=20


Gruss
Grisu
--=20
Michael Bramer  -  a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org
PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org  -- Linux Sysadmin   -- Use Debian Linux
"Wer in Reih und Glied marschiert, hat bereits meine Verachtung verdient"=
=20
                               -- Albert Einstein...  So let's install Linu=
x!

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