On 2015-12-14 3:50 PM, Andrew wrote: > looking at https://sks-keyservers.net/ > some of the Public Keys there are huge! > Using openpgpjs and 4096 I cannot get close to the size of some of the > keys listed. > > I'm wondering why some of them are so large, I ran a couple though > openpgpjs to encrypt a message without any errors. > > Here is an example of a Public Key - there are many there larger than > this: > https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5A2D5D773DAF299D > > Sorry for the "newbie" type question, just curious as to why. This is likely due to the number of signatures attached to that key. If you view the same key using the viewer that shows all the signatures attached to the key, you can see there are a number of them:
https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x5A2D5D773DAF299D The more signatures attached to a key, the larger it will be. -- o) Derek Wueppelmann (o (D . [email protected] D). ((` http://www.monkeynet.ca ( ) ` _______________________________________________ http://openpgpjs.org Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://list.openpgpjs.org
