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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:
address@hidden 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
address@hidden:/var/sks# sks dump 26000 /var/sks/dump sks-keydump
wrong number of arguments
usage: sksdump numkeys dumpdir [dumpname]
address@hidden:/var/sks# time sks dump 26000 /var/sks/dump
Dumping keys to file /var/sks/dump/1-0000.pgp
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