Re: [Sks-devel] pgp.mit.edu upgraded to SKS

[David Shaw]

On Jul 2, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Jonathon Weiss wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I know this has already been mentioned here, but consider this the
> official announcement.  Approximately 24 hours ago pgp.mit.edu was
> upgraded form an old sun box running PKS to new linux VM running SKS.
> I'm very excited that we are now able to fully support subkeys (and
> suspect that I'm not the only one), since I know that people were
> running into that limitation with our PKS installation.
>
> During the upgrade process, I noticed that we are still getting a few
> requests (and a lot of spam) a week via our email gateway.  I hacked
> to gether some perl and curl to reply to the legitimate requests.  Are
> others intersted in this code, if I found the time to clean it up
> enough for distribution?

Out of curiosity, how many requests do you get via email in a week?

> If you are currently sending a mail feed to pgp.mit.edu, please
> contact bug-pks at mit dot edu to coordinate converting that to a
> gossip peer relationship.
>
> In that vein, does anyone know of any remaining PKS servers?  I think
> that all of the servers our PKS server was set to synchronize with are
> either already running SKS or aren't actually running a keyserver.

I know of at least one: pgp.nic.ad.jp.

I think we've reached the point that if someone is still running PKS,  
they should either convert to something without the subkey problems,  
or just shut down entirely.  We have a good number of public  
keyservers that properly handle subkeys up and running at this point,  
and I feel the cost of hard-to-understand subkey failures at hard-to- 
expect times outweighs the benefit of having one more keyserver out  
there.

David