Re: [Sks-devel] Idea: dump should create keycount.txt

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On 11/08/2012 10:51 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> On 11/08/2012 02:07 AM, Phil Pennock wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> Kristian, one feature request: please emit a line stating the checksum
>> algorithm, so that it's easier to migrate in future?  Especially since
>> this is using MD5, which is leads to a second feature request.  ;-)
>>
>> "#Checksum-Algorithm: MD5\n"
> This is a good idea, I'll update my patch later.

The patch [0] should now be updated to include the digest algorithm. .
With the current format the easiest way to test the download is  md5sum
--quiet -c metadata-sks-dump.txt .

gentoo4 dumptest # cat metadata-sks-dump.txt
#Metadata-for: keys5.kfwebs.net
#Dump-started: 2012-11-08 15:45:45
#Files-Count: 28
#Key-Count: 420000
#Digest-algo: md5
ef5a257aa60e83319f3522d4555cc15c sks-dump-0000.pgp
....
#Dump-ended: 2012-11-08 15:45:50

[0]
https://bitbucket.org/kristianf/sks-keyserver-patches/src/tip/DUMP_METADATA?at=default

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