Re: [Sks-devel] Keydump

[Frank Villaro-Dixon]

On 14-07-14 09:00:17, Henning Kopp, wrote 0.9K characters saying:
> Is it possible to get a keydump of all gpg-keys? Are there any usage
> restrictions? What would the size of the data be?
Someone just launched it's service some days ago. You can fetch them 
there:
http://key.bbs4.us/dump/
I think that the dumps are around 6Gb, now. Am I right ?
I would say that as the keys are public, you can (try) to do what you want 
with them, but I'm not a lawyer, so… ^^
> They tried
> some trivial factorization methods, like computing gcd, etc. and had
> success. Also many of the keys were the same due to embedded devices,
> having not enough entropy.
> I want to do the same or something similar on gpg-keys. Do you know
> of any research which was already done?
That seems interesting, although I don't think it would work with PGP 
keys, but that's just a gut feeling, nothing scientific ;).
>
Good luck to you,

Cheers,

Frank
>

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