Re: [Sks-devel] sks recon crashes with ptree corruption

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On 08/10/2012 09:11 AM, Phil Pennock wrote:

...

> 
> Since this is new, I suspect the only recent change I know of to how
> elements are indexed on disk: my clock resolution fixes, which always
> get a unique new time-of-day.

Or there just is a change to other environmental factors, so limiting to
that might be a case of Post Hoc ergo Propter Hoc :)

...

> 
> I'm not spotting a link going down the invocation stack meeting
> something coming up, so I might be wrong: I might be innocent.
> 

You might indeed very well be.

> The other change recently would be _what_ is stored on disk: are you
> running tip, with the ECDH/ECDSA key support?  Might it be a bug in the
> layout of metadata for those keys?

I doubt it, there has not been any change to how these keys are stored
in the patch. On older versions of SKS you get the full key using
clean=off as well, so it replicates alright. The patch only update the
presentation layer (aka the cleaning layer) so that it doesn't filter
out unknown data.

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