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Version information for this TrustDB. This is always the first
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record of the DB and the only one with type 1.
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1 byte value 2
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1 byte value 1
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3 bytes 'gpg' magic value
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1 byte Version of the TrustDB
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3 byte reserved
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1 u32 locked by (pid) 0 = not locked.
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1 u32 locked flags
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1 u32 timestamp of trustdb creation
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1 u32 timestamp of last modification
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1 u32 timestamp of last validation
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(Used to keep track of the time, when this TrustDB was checked
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against the pubring)
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1 u32 reserved
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1 byte marginals needed
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1 byte completes needed
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1 byte max. cert depth
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If any of this 3 values are changed, all cache records
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must be invalidated.
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9 bytes reserved
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1 u32 record number of keyhashtable
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12 bytes reserved
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Record type 2: (directory record)
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Record Type 10 (hash table)
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Due to the fact that we use the keyid to lookup keys, we can
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Due to the fact that we use fingerprints to lookup keys, we can
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implement quick access by some simple hash methods, and avoid
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the overhead of gdbm. A property of keyids is that they can be
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the overhead of gdbm. A property of fingerprints is that they can be
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used directly as hash values. (They can be considered as strong
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random numbers.)
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What we use is a dynamic multilevel architecture, which combines
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This record is a hashtable of 256 entries; a special property
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is that all these records are stored consecutively to make one
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big table. The hash value is simple the 1st, 2nd, ... byte of
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the keyid (depending on the indirection level).
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the fingerprint (depending on the indirection level).
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1 byte value 10
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1 byte reserved
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n u32 recnum; n depends on th record length:
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n u32 recnum; n depends on the record length:
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n = (reclen-2)/4 which yields 9 for the current record length
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of 40 bytes.
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m = (256+n-1) / n
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which is 29 for a record length of 40.
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To look up a key we use its lsb to get the recnum from this
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hashtable and look up the addressed record:
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- If this record is another hashtable, we use 2nd lsb
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To look up a key we use the first byte of the fingerprint to get
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the recnum from this hashtable and look up the addressed record:
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- If this record is another hashtable, we use 2nd byte
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to index this hast table and so on.
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- if this record is a hashlist, we walk thru the
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reclist records until we found one whose hash field
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matches the MSB of our keyid, and lookup this record
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- if this record is a dir record, we compare the
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keyid and if this is correct, we get the keyrecod and compare
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the fingerprint to decide whether it is the requested key;
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if this is not the correct dir record, we look at the next
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dir record which is linked by the link field.
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- if this record is a hashlist, we walk all entries
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until we found one a matching one.
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- if this record is a key record, we compare the
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fingerprint and to decide whether it is the requested key;
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Record type 11 (hash list)
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1 byte value 11
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1 byte reserved
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1 u32 next next hash list record
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n times n = (reclen-6)/5
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1 byte hash
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n times n = (reclen-5)/5
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1 u32 recnum
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For the current record length of 40, n is 6
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For the current record length of 40, n is 7
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