Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] long GPG keys

[Ineiev]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 02:24:38AM -0500, Ineiev wrote:
>
> I thought the same, but it turned out that I'm just not very sociable.
> for example, key 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5 exports
> to a 84k long file because it has 125 signatures from other people;
> with gpg -a --export --export-options=export-minimal, it's just 5k long.
>
> Now, keyservers do store some keys with many fancy signatures, like [0],
> but generally signatures are useful, and we may expect that people
> don't keep a lot of spam signatures on their own keys in their keyrings.
>
> [0] 
> https://pgp.surfnet.nl/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&search=0xF2AD85AC1E42B367

So now a harder question: what should we do?  I see three basic
possibilities:

(0) drop gpg_key completely;
(1) recommend gpg --armor --export --export-options=export-minimal;
(2) convert gpg_key to meduimtext.

What do people think?

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