Re: [Sks-devel] sks 1.1.0

[John Clizbe]

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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?

"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?

> 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:

  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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