Re: [Sks-devel] Changes to sks-keyservers.net pools

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 05/06/2014 11:22 PM, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2014-05-06 at 17:53 +0200, Dinko Korunic wrote:
>> IMO delisting is fine as long as there is proper communication 
>> involved and people actually are aware that's going on -- I'm
>> sure that not all the SKS administrators read the sks-devel on a 
>> daily/weekly basis.
> 
> For clarity, this becomes: there's a chance that for a window of a 
> couple of weeks, the only SKS administrators who will be in the 
> rarely-used "subset" pool will be those who read SKS email daily.
> 
> There's a chance that Kristian's main pool will become a set of
> servers run only by administrators who check their email at least
> every 45 days. This being the pool of keyservers which are the
> default for a number of mainstream clients.

Just to further clarify, as stated originally I don't expect to be
making any change to the main pool at this time, so it would actually
only affect the hkps pool that is expected to be (more) secure due to
its TLS-nature.


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