storing keyrings into SQL database?

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 19 May 2003 15:30:39 +0100, David Picon Alvarez said:

> Somewhat off-topic, but is this slowness accidental or essential? Is it
> likely to go away in the future?

This is due to the fact that the keyring is not indexed and thus we
have to do a sequentiell search for each key we need while traversing
the web-of-trust.  Furthermore we don't store any meta information
like fingerprint or keyID, so we have to calculate them on the fly :-(

I have a new storage format ready which allows for better random
access and makes searching by fingerprint really fast.  gpgsm already
uses this format.  This is the reason why I always stress that
--import and --export are the only defined interfaces to the keys.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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