Re: [Sks-devel] Idea: dump should create keycount.txt

[Kim Minh Kaplan]

Phil Pennock wrote:
> What do folks think of the idea of having "sks dump" also create a file
> called [prefix]keycount.txt ?
[...]
> Does this seem reasonable and worth coding?

This sounds interesting, but I would go a step further. There are
numerous information about a key dump that could be of interest. Thus
a metadata file with serveral fields would be interesting. Something
like [prefix].txt:

Dump-Start-Date: 2012-11-07T15:35:42Z
Hostname: keyserver.kim-minh.com
Files-Count: 201
Checksums:
  cb89d21aa7e8df0902571a37f3b0625e322059ef8a619961b6b5b9be7a82799a
sks-dump-0000.pgp
[...]
  37e87c7f33c0f43736b6a9960d7cc564af9b00987b69db8e58aeec3ad471ee2c
sks-dump-0200.gpg
Checksums:
Key-Count: 3163896
Dump-End-Date 2012-11-07T15:47:13Z
-- 
Kim Minh.