avoiding long trustdb updates

Kristian Fiskerstrand kristian.fiskerstrand at sumptuouscapital.com
Tue Oct 4 22:55:47 CEST 2016


On 10/04/2016 10:17 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Is there a reason to use --always-trust here instead of
> --no-auto-check-trustdb ?  --always-trust seems like it should have more
> side effects in terms of how gpg operates, and if the goal is just "to
> avoid trustdb checks" then it seems like we might prefer
> --no-auto-check-trustdb.
> 
> what do you think?

Presumably wks doesn't depend on any trust checks as it doesn't have WoT
and only requires to verify for the keyblock in question.

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