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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

> We could store the individual keys as ascii versions.  I'm not sure how
> that would help with whatever the issues are with binaries; it's just an
> ascii encoding, so it's not like text diffs are going to make sense between
> revisions.  If anything it's worse since the encoded ascii version is
> larger than the binary version.
> 
> I agree, but if there are other benefits to keeping these ascii that I'm
> not seeing, we could just keep the full keyrings as ascii in the grimoires
> (p4 and on user machines) and make the verificatin routines do the
> conversion to a binary keyring as needed.  I'm not sure how bad that
> performance hit would be so there may still be a need to cache if we did
> that.


There would be virtually no performance hit -- this is a small "+ c" on 
an "O(n)" process.

Seth

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