Re: [Sks-devel] How are Key's stored (format) in the berkeley Database

[Thomas Spycher]

Thats Awesome!!!
Thank you!

Its so hard to read and finally understand ocaml….


On 16 Nov 2013, at 15:56, Kim Minh Kaplan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thomas Spycher wrote:
> 
>> i’m trying to generate some statistics out of my running sks keyserver. For 
>> this i’m accessing the berkeley Database directly.
>> I was a bit surprised, that i can’t use the received public key in my python 
>> script directly as binary based key.
> [...]
>> It is not a error in the pgpdump library. Are the keys compressed stored?
> 
> Check keydb.ml[1] to see the database format. If and only if the first
> byte is 0 then the rest is the raw key. If you used "sks build" then
> all entries should begin with 0. If you used "sks fastbuild" then you
> will also encounter entries that are index in the pgp dump files. The
> format is 32 bit unsigned int that indicate the pgpdump file number,
> and a 32 bit (if first byte is 1) or 64 bit (if first byte is 2)
> offset into that dump file.
> 
> [1] 
> https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/src/4069c369eaaa718c6d4f19427f8f164fb9a1e1f0/keydb.ml?at=default#cl-214
> -- 
> Kim Minh.
> http://www.kim-minh.com/

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