[29596] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: PGP kerserver infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Thu Jun 29 01:32:42 2000
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 01:27:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net>
To: "L. Sassaman" <rabbi@quickie.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, pgp-keyserver-folk@flame.org
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> requirements for a keyserer are. I asked Randy Harmon, the administrator
> for certserver.pgp.com, to see if he could answer that question for
> me. His response is below.
>
<snip>
> If we assume 10 times the volume as today (1.1 million keys on the
> server), and 10 servers to balance the search load, then the
> bandwidth for each server would be roughly:
>
> Searches: 160 MB
> Adds/Mods: 28 MB
> Replications: 28 MB outgoing
> 280 MB incoming
> =============
> 496 MB/day
> 15 GB/month
>
> Multiply by 10 for 100,000,000 keys.
>
> Randy
>
OK. So if we take 15GB/mo, it's aproximately 45Kb/s of bandwidth. Even
at 3rd Tier pricing, I don't know anyone who uses PGP who wouldn't be
willing to donate $45/mo to the cause.
If someone wants to donate the hardware, we'll gladly host a keyserver.
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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc
