From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Sebastian Schwarz <seschwar@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Cc: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Subject: Re: [RFE] Call `gpg --recv-keys` asynchronously
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:52:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760jtx484.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878toq9d2n.fsf@domain.invalid>
Sebastian Schwarz <seschwar@gmail.com> writes:
> Allow me add to this RFE.
>
> On 2017-02-28, Steven Allen wrote:
>> Currently, notmuch fetches keys synchronously. This can be
>> *very* slow (I fetch keys over tor) and locks up emacs for the
>> duration. Therefore, this fetch really should be
>> asynchronous.
>
> Even with all keys already present signature verification takes
> some time as well. It would be nice if this was done
> asynchronously as well. This would greatly improve the speed of
> opening threads with large numbers of signed messages.
Offhand, that sounds even harder. With a noticable loss in security, we
could cache the verifications in the database so the cost is only paid
once.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-28 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-28 20:35 [RFE] Call `gpg --recv-keys` asynchronously Steven Allen
2017-02-28 22:15 ` Sebastian Schwarz
2017-02-28 23:52 ` David Bremner [this message]
2017-03-01 2:18 ` David Bremner
2017-03-01 16:13 ` Sebastian Schwarz
2017-03-05 11:49 ` Jani Nikula
2017-03-01 0:17 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2021-05-05 14:01 ` David Bremner
2021-05-05 16:12 ` Steven Allen
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