Re: [Sks-devel] Min. Requirement for SKS Version in the Pool

[Brian D Heaton]

Kristian,

Would it be a good idea to contact the operators of keyservers running
versions prior to v1.1.3 and let them know about this coming change and
perhaps get them to upgrade?  I'm guessing a great number of the
keyserver operators are not on the sks-devel list.

I'm willing to work through the servers in the NA pool in order by
weight to help take some of the load.

-Brian


On 6/24/2012 12:20 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In order to have the full pool being able to handle searching subkeys
> using the Long KeyID, which is available in SKS 1.1.3, I intend on
> making some changes to the minimum required SKS version of the servers
> to be included in the main Pool.
> 
> From the SKS CHANGELOG for 1.1.3: "
>   - Allow &search with long subkey ID (16 digit) and subkey fingerprint
>     subkey lookup was failing with other than a short key ID. However,
>     public key lookup was working with short and long key ID and
>     fingerprints.
>     This patch makes subkey lookup behave the same as full key lookup.
> 
> http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2012-January/043495.html "
> 
> Currently only the sub-pool: subset.pool.sks-keyservers.net is already
> LongID safe due to its min version requirement of 1.1.3 [0]
> 
> On the way to this goal, grandfathering 1.1.2 seems to be necessary to
> maintain a higher number in the pool. Currently I see, of total of 64
> servers included in the Pool at the time of writing;
> alpha status # php debug_version.php  | sort | uniq -c
>       3 GnuKS:0.9.2
>      31 SKS:1.1.1
>       7 SKS:1.1.2
>      19 SKS:1.1.3
>       4 SKS:1.1.3+
> 
> Id est 26 servers that are upgraded to 1.1.3 or later (1.1.3+ is
> Trunk, and GnuKS 0.9.2 is based on 1.1.3).
> 
> As of *7. July 2012* I intend to change the minimum version for
> qualification in the pool to 1.1.2, which would currently mean that
> the number of servers in the pool will be 33 (although I expect more
> servers to be upgrade by this time, one of the reasons being that
> 1.1.3 is now available in the Debian repository).
> 
> As of *1. August 2012* I intend to change the minimum version for
> qualification in the pool to 1.1.3.
> 
> If there are strong objections to these changes, please let me know
> before the aforementioned dates.
> 
> [0] http://sks-keyservers.net/overview-of-pools.php
> 
> 
> 
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