Re: [Sks-devel] withdrawal of service: sks.spodhuis.org

[Haw Loeung]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 07:53:01PM +0100, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> I am still willing to help with possible upgrades and/or
> replacements for the SKS network. At this point I have come to
> believe that a minimal network containing only key material, SBINDs
> and revocations (no id packets, no third party sigs) is the absolute
> maximum functionality we can hope to sustain in the long term. And
> for this to be bulletproof, all such material must be
> cryptographically verified (otherwise people could just create
> “random” key material containing arbitrary data).

If it helps others, we have a patched SKS packaged to exclude the bad
key (one of them at least)[1]. A couple of others in my team did all
the work so I can't comment on the details.

There's also work being done to spin up a few SKS servers to trial
hockeypuck.


Regards,

Haw


[1]https://launchpad.net/~canonical-sysadmins/+archive/ubuntu/sks-public

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