Efficent batch fetching with verification?

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 12:50:06PM +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote:
> On 03/11/17 06:20, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > Presently, the code is effectively this:
> > ...cat-list-of-fingerprints... | xargs gpg --recv
> > 
> > This has the downside of causing many exec
...
> Anyway, I didn't look any further, but what is exec'ing much here then?
> Which version of GnuPG are you using? I'm using the Debian stretch
> provided 2.1.18 with a systemd supervised dirmngr. I can't readily think
> of which process would be starting often here... am I completey
> forgetting about something? :-)
You missed xargs itself, this mostly centers around the command-line
length limit. I can get in about ~3200 fingerprints per GPG call.

GnuPG 2.2.1, findutils/xargs 4.6.0.

Thanks for the idea of --no-auto-check-trustdb, I did miss that and it
helps for speedups.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
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