[13877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dear bog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Wed Nov 19 14:17:35 1997
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:00:05 CST."
<199711191900.NAA27142@freeside.fc.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:13:50 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
I don't think performance is an issue. My alpha (F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) is not
among the fastest machines Digital makes, but it can verify hundreds of PGP
signatures per second (assuming an even distribution of sizes from 1K to 10K.)
I also don't think random signatures are a problem. The right way to approach
this is that if a message submitter is not in the relay's web of trust -- which
means any NANOG member can "sign up" any new NANOG member -- then it dies on
the floor.
I think there are plenty of people here willing to donate the time and the
machinery for this, but the question remains: is MERIT willing to put it in
place and let the volunteers run it?
