[51504] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP 3.0/4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Wed Mar 6 08:21:11 1996
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nelson@santafe.edu (Nelson Minar)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:13:50 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199603060755.AAA00215@nelson.santafe.edu> from "Nelson Minar" at Mar 6, 96 00:55:38 am
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
>
> >the last time I put together a 6,000 key ring on a 386 it took three
> >days & several Mb.
>
> The MIT PGP keyserver now has new non-PGP based code to manage it's
> keyring of 20,000+ keys. Not sure if you can get the code, or how easy
> it'd be to adapt to a deployed usage, but presumably it's much more
> efficient.
How about code that goes out & fetches keys upon demand, al-la DNS?
[1st pass thinking is there are too many holes in such a method, even
if MIT's server could handle the real-time load...]
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