This key makes my gpg slow...

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:30:23PM +0100, Miguel Coca wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Sorry if this a known problem.
> 
> I just imported key 10F4B2AA (gpg automatically imported it when reading
> gnupg-users), and for some reason gpg now is much slower when listing keys.
> Or, to be more precise, when listing that key:
> 
>         # This is my key, for reference
>         $ time gpg --list-keys 27FC3CA8 >/dev/null 
> 
>         real	0m0.066s
>         user	0m0.050s
>         sys	0m0.010s
>         # This is the "slow" key
>         $ time gpg --list-keys 10F4B2AA >/dev/null 
> 
>         real	0m8.724s
>         user	0m8.380s
>         sys	0m0.010s
> 
> Somehow, I don't think it's normal that gpg takes 8 seconds to list a single
> key :-) 
> 
> This happens even on an empty keyring, using GnuPG 1.2.1.

Now you know why people don't like Elgamal signing keys ;)

David

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