On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:36:01PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:50:34AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:18:05PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Why when two entries in your .gnupg/gpg.conf file will do it > > > just fine? > > > > > > keyserver x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu > > > keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve > > > > I can see why Pigeon's approach might be preferable. I found > > auto-key-retrieve annoying and turned it off because it slowed > > things down *while I was reading mail*, which I want to be fast. > > Doing that task as mail is retrieved is something I hadn't thought > > of and would be far smoother for me. > > Given that a given key is only retrieved once, the penalty is > front-loaded, and gets better. > > You can always abort the fetch with ^C.
I can, but I'm often reading mail over a relatively slow ssh link and it takes me a few seconds for my brain to decide whether it's just a slow connection or whether gpg is really sitting there trying to talk to a keyserver. Trust me, I did consider this and it really does slow me down significantly while I'm trying to get through the huge number of mails I get a day in a sensible amount of time. I can always (and do, now and then) retrieve keys explicitly in cases where I'm interested. Likewise, I've turned off gpg's automatic trustdb check since I very rarely care about the results. People I trust I also know, and these days I've often signed their key too. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]