Re: [Sks-devel] Checking dump

[Andrew Alderwick]

Hi everyone!

What a useful thread! I've started playing around with key dumps with an 
aim to host them for others, so this couldn't be better timed.

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 05:19:50PM +0100, Gabor Kiss wrote:
> Now if I count lines with 'packet:' string in
> output of "gpg --list-packets" the result is only 406929.
> Even if I sum every lines of output it is less than 2.5 million.
> It is far from 4 million keys allegedly stored on my server.
>
> I wonder what SKS count a key in the stats?
> Or do you think my keydump is just a garbage? :-)

I'm starting to think your dumps may be bad. I've counted the 'packet:' 
lines and the total lines and my figures come to 14 million and 89 
million respectively.

Here's my exact command lines and truncated output:

$ for F in sks-dump-0???.pgp; do gpg --list-packets < "${F}"; done | grep -v 
'^\s'| grep 'packet:' | wc -l
gpg: mpi too large for this implementation (56104 bits)
gpg: mpi too large for this implementation (31822 bits)
gpg: mpi too large for this implementation (35677 bits)
gpg: packet(2) with unknown version 6
gpg: signature packet: unhashed data too long
gpg: signature packet: unhashed data too long
[many similar errors…]
13998000

$ for F in sks-dump-0???.pgp; do gpg --list-packets < "${F}"; done | wc -l
gpg: mpi too large for this implementation (56104 bits)
[…]
89464944

There's 4146198 keys in this dump, and it takes up 7.6G (the .pgp files 
aren't compressed).

Hope this helps!
Andy

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