--list-keys slow

[Marc Mutz]

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Hi Malte!

On Thursday 12 July 2001 22:31, Malte Starostik wrote:
> Every time I run gpg --list-keys (or KMail runs it to get the
> available public keys), it takes horribly long. My pubring.gpg
> contains some 400 keys. There is a noticeable delay before one of the
> keys is output, which is especially long (3360). Unfortunately
> --fast-list-mode can't be used as the names and addresses are needed.
> Someone told me gpg also does some verification while listing the
> keys. Would it be possible to implement something like
> --fast-list-mode but with additionally outputting name/comment/email
> or would that take as long? Thanks,
<snip>

Does disabling keys help? You can disable sign-only keys. They're not 
available for encryption anymore, but for sig-checking.

Might make a difference.

Marc

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