Reduce GPGME memory usage

[Marcel Behlau]

Hi,

i'm using gpgme for encryption and signing of updates for an embedded 
linux system.

The old version worked fine, now i have to port the stuff to a new 
system with fewer RAM and bigger update files. This generates some 
problems , if the maximum RAM is used, caused by to big update files. In 
my workflow, i'm compare the signer keys of the updatefiles and the 
expected keys, but the "gpgme_get_key" functions fails with a "Invalid 
crypto engine" error. Is the error message correct at this position? The 
gpgme_op_decrypt_verify, gpgme_op_decrypt_result and 
gpgme_op_verify_result work before properly.

The size of the update files will be reduced before the release, so i'm 
hoping, the system will finaly work. But this is very critical, if 
someday, the applications, which are running on the system, using to 
much RAM. So 'm now trying to reduce the memory usage for the complete 
update process.

My gpgme encrypted updatefile contains a single tar file, the tar file 
contains all necessary files for the update. I'm using libtar to extract 
the files to the installation path, libtar is working directly on the 
gpgme memory buffer. The complete update is stored during the process in 
the memory. This leads to the problems with to few RAM. Is there a way, 
to reduce the size of the gpgme memory buffer, maybe by reloading (and 
redecrypting ) data chunks from the orignal crypted update file? The 
original update file is loaded via stream. I found the " Callback Based 
Data Buffers" in the documation. It is possible, to use this buffers, to 
realize the reloading behavior?

Thanks in advance,

Marcel

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