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List:       pgp-keyserver-folk
Subject:    Re: problems with importing keyrings & searching
From:       Dan Egli <dan () shortcircuit ! dyndns ! org>
Date:       2003-07-18 23:51:01
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On 18 Jul 2003, Yaron M. Minsky wrote:

> SKS is more complex, in that it implements a fairly sophisticated
> set-differencing algorithm for doing replication.  But the replication
> is much more efficient and reliable than PKS's email-based replication.
> 
> If you just look at the component of SKS that implements PKS-like
> functionality, SKS has considerably fewer lines of code, and does a much
> better job of processing OpenPGP keys correctly.
> 
> (note, the lower loc-count is largely due to the implementation
> language, not any virtue of my own.  But I still think loc is a decent
> though hardly perfect metric of complexity.)

Well, I got it installed, but when I tried to make a database from the 
keydump, it errors with: 

Fatal error: exception Bdb.DBError("unable to join the environment")

Any ideas on this one?




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