On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:09 PM, John Clizbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Yaron Minsky wrote:
> > A new release of SKS (version 1.1.0) is now available, and can be
> > downloaded from
> <snip>
>
> > * Numerix is no longer required. This should simplify the build
> > process on a number of different platforms. SKS relies instead on
> > OCaml's native Big_int implementation.
>
> I had thought about maybe using gmp, but if OCaml has a native
> implementation, why not use it?
Indeed. And the performance is just fine for SKS, since transferring the
keys is considerably more expensive than discovering which keys need to be
brought over (and that's the part that uses bignums.)
> "Just for grins" I built SKS on Cygwin. It builds fine, but trying to
> build the database dies with:
>
> $ sks build -n 5 -cache 100 /var/sks/dump/*.pgp
> Loading keys...Fatal error: exception Failure("Bit 7 of packet tag was
> not 1 as expected: 3f")
>
> Any ideas? -mms-bitfields?
>
Hmm. I have no idea offhand why that would happen. The bitwise operations
should be perfectly portable...
> > Enjoy. If people have further patches, I would be happy to consider
> > them for inclusion into the distribution.
>
> Running fine on keyserver.gingerbear.net since ~20:00 US/Central Saturday.
>
> One little nagging problem: How do I set a name for a keydump?
> When I specify a name I get an argument count error:
Hmm. This seems to work for me:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sks]$ sks dump 1000000 ~/dump fooname
Dumping keys to file /home/yminsky/dump/fooname-0000.pgp
are you sure you're using the latest executable?
y
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/sks# sks dump 26000 /var/sks/dump sks-keydump
> wrong number of arguments
> usage: sksdump numkeys dumpdir [dumpname]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/sks# time sks dump 26000 /var/sks/dump
> Dumping keys to file /var/sks/dump/1-0000.pgp
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