[29605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PGP kerserver infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Thu Jun 29 10:01:53 2000
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:58:41 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>,
John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net>,
"L. Sassaman" <rabbi@quickie.net>, nanog@merit.edu,
pgp-keyserver-folk@flame.org
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > I suspect that, with the relevant approvals, placing one of
> > these key servers at the LINX might be possible. I'll try and
> > get this added to the agenda for the next meeting.
>
> thanks neil. the problem i see before scaling this up is how the
> access/naming/referral works. a user wants to just say "look this up"
> and not to have to think about how to choose from some magic list of
> 42 possible servers.
>
> it is not clear to me how this happens.
Its the same problem facing any distributed service. People have been
throwing around various solutions, but I personally don't think any
solution which doesn't let the client choose is ever going to work.
Adrian
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