Re: [Sks-devel] Reconciling algorithm

[Yaron Minsky]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Jesus Cea <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 21/04/10 02:17, Yaron Minsky wrote:
>>> I am interested in knowing the *exact* algorithm/protocol SKS uses for
>>> reconciliation. I have read the two papers in the main SKS webpage, but
>>> it is not enough to "clone" the wire protocol and implement another
>>> independent keyserver.
>>>
>>> I can not read ocaml sourcecode :-(.
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>> Sorry.  I'm afraid the source is the only available documentation for
>> the protocol.
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> This is not good. An undocumented *key* feature, written in a obscure
> programming language :).
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> I know it is not very appropiate to post this in this mailing list but...
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> I was wondering if there is any kind of demand of an alternative OpenPGP
> keyserver, with a different but documented syncronization technology,
> like Merkle trees. Implemented in Python.
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> I apology for the off-topic and the attack to sks :(.

No apologies necessary!  That said, I humbly suggest you consider just
hacking on SKS.  OCaml is a surprisingly pleasant language, once you
get the hang of it.  And it's really not as hard to learn as you might
think.  SKS could benefit from more developers...

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