I’ve noticed quite often when I start Kleopatra there is a long delay while it says “Loading Certificate Cache”. Sometimes a minute or more. I could understand if I had lots of keys that could possibly happen but I have only about 18 keys in there.
Hi Mark,
the long delay maybe caused by a network delay when trying to check the revocation information of the certifications (if you have CMS certificates for S/MIME?)
If it is a long network operation, even one pubkey in your repository could cause it.
I only have PGP keys in there, no S/Mime so I can rule that out. This morning when opening Kleopatra it took almost 2 minutes for that Loading to Complete. Is there a way to narrow down the culprit? I only have 18 keys in there and if one of them is causing the problem I will delete it I did look and I have 2 keys in there that have expired, could that be the cause? Is it looking for updated keys or ??
trying to turn up diagnostic messages (see documentation)
you could do a backup of all your keys and then narrow it down by trying half of the remaining set (and then doing it again) to see if one key is causing problems.
some settings could cause network traffic, maybe there is something to monitor (on GNU/Linux systems this would be Wireshark, but I don’t know what a good approach is on Windows). You could see if and AV or firewall products have an influcence.