Re: [Sks-devel] SKS RAM usage gone haywire

2009-02-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/13/2009 10:21 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: Normally, sks consumes a negligible amount of the resources on my server; some GB of disk, some MB RAM (~45 right now, after restart), not enough network that I've bothered to isolate figures for it. I just found that my box was thrashing badly

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS RAM usage gone haywire

2009-02-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/14/2009 05:24 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: So, the options behind it, if the correlation is more than coincidence, seem to be: 1 bad SKS update 2 bad query hitting pool.sks-keyservers.net 3 someone hitting the servers individually deliberately 4 someone doing full sync of a keyserver

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS RAM usage gone haywire

2009-02-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/15/2009 06:33 PM, Ryan wrote: Yea, I am pretty sure I am the one going haywire.. sorry guys, trying to figure out exactly what the hell is wrong... Thanks for the quick and excellent detective work, Phil and Ryan! Since i restarted sks on zimmermann.mayfirst.org, and Ryan took his system

Re: [Sks-devel] details to configure SKS https web interface

2009-03-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/07/2009 03:03 PM, Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote: On Mar 7, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Gab wrote: I wish to in https ssl the sks web interface . What are the directives for cert.pem and key.pem and to enable ssl ? I don't believe that the built-in web server supports SSL. However, you could

Re: [Sks-devel] details to configure SKS https web interface

2009-03-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/07/2009 09:37 PM, David Shaw wrote: On Mar 7, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: We also are listening on port 11372 because this seems to be the choice of gnupg maintainers for hkp-over-tls (hkps?), according to this recent (as yet unreleased) patch to gpg: http

Re: [Sks-devel] commands to optimize and debug sks after install

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/10/2009 11:52 PM, Gab wrote: Hi i was looking for the command after sks db id buid to get sks running. I'm not sure what you're asking -- can you try rephrasing it? Your subject line commands to optimize and debug sks after install doesn't seem to agree with to get sks running. If you

Re: [Sks-devel] Re: details to configure SKS https web interface

2009-03-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/15/2009 11:23 AM, Gab wrote: Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 03/07/2009 03:03 PM, Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote: On Mar 7, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Gab wrote: I wish to in https ssl the sks web interface . What are the directives for cert.pem and key.pem and to enable ssl ? I don't believe

Re: [Sks-devel] problems with SKS 1.0.10 when searching by key ID from GnuPG

2009-03-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/22/2009 09:02 AM, Kim Minh Kaplan wrote: Daniel Kahn Gillmor: gpg generates an HTTP request like this: http://$foo:11371/pks/lookup?op=indexoptions=mrsearch=0xD21739E9exact=on [...] What is the right way to handle this? The simplest solution would be to remove the exact

Re: [Sks-devel] problems with SKS 1.0.10 when searching by key ID from GnuPG

2009-03-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/22/2009 06:41 PM, David Shaw wrote: The 'exact=on' problem is specific to 1.0.10. It worked properly in 1.0.9. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/sks-devel@nongnu.org/msg00287.html Ah, thanks for the pointer, David. Given that this causes problems for users of gnupg, has any thought

Re: [Sks-devel] problems with SKS 1.0.10 when searching by key ID from GnuPG

2009-03-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/22/2009 10:29 PM, Yaron Minsky wrote: I'm really confused. People have piped in in both directions on this one, so does someone have the definitive story? Is 1.0.10 the one that behaves correctly, or 1.0.9? So far i haven't heard anyone claim that 1.0.10 works correctly. 1.1.0 works

Re: [Sks-devel] problems with SKS 1.0.10 when searching by key ID from GnuPG

2009-03-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/23/2009 04:02 PM, David Shaw wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:41:50PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: has any thought been given to requiring members of the keyserver pools to not run that version of SKS? keys.gnupg.net itself contains several keyservers running 1.0.10, which

Re: [Sks-devel] problems with SKS 1.0.10 when searching by key ID from GnuPG

2009-03-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/23/2009 07:05 PM, John Clizbe wrote: David Shaw wrote: None that I know of. Eventually, such a thing will be necessary, but it would have to be done via whoever controls the particular keyserver round-robin. Or convince the keyserver operators running 1.0.10 to upgrade to 1.1.0 or

Re: [Sks-devel] problems with SKS 1.0.10 when searching by key ID from GnuPG

2009-04-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/03/2009 08:01 AM, Werner Koch wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:17, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: keys.gnupg.net is pretty new and I configure it manually. I poll the keyservers every hour or so to see whether they are still responding and send a mail if they don't response. Everything else

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS Keyserver on Debian Etch

2009-04-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/10/2009 11:15 AM, Leonhard Kugler wrote: Debian Lenny with Ocaml, Barkley, SKS from the sources (Virtual Machine) This one ought to work smoothly -- i'd focus on it, if i were you. Debian Etch with Ocaml, Barkley (4.2) from the sources and sks-1.0.10 Why did you choose to go with etch

Re: [PATCH] unqueue the tqueue database even when mailsync is empty (was: [Sks-devel] [PATCH] Bundle IPv6, DNS fixes, sks dump fix)

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/04/2009 07:23 AM, Yaron Minsky wrote: If we have lots of SKS keyservers that don't have mailsync's, I'm afraid the PKS network will get left behind... /etc/sks/mailsync in the sks debian package says: # IMPORTANT: don't add someone to your mailsync file without getting # their

[Sks-devel] [Fwd: pgp.mit.edu upgrading to SKS]

2009-07-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i thought sks folks might be happy to see the following note that was posted today to gnupg-devel. an inspection of the HKP headers (and the pgp.mit.edu web interface) confirms it. A big thank you to the keyserver folks at MIT for making this transition! --dkg ---BeginMessage--- It

[Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net DNS unresponsive?

2009-07-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hey folks-- I appear to be getting no A records for pool.sks-keyservers.net. this seems like a Bad Thing. is anyone else seeing this? it's forcing my nameservice resolution to fall back to IPv6, which is link-local only for a number of my machines which don't have connections to any of the

Re: [Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net DNS unresponsive?

2009-07-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/02/2009 02:16 PM, Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote: Same here. I'm getting all records. fwiw, i'm getting valid A records (not ) from subset.pool.sks-keyservers.net, so at least some pieces of the infrastructure are working as expected. Kristian, can you clarify what's going on with the

Re: [Sks-devel] pgp.mit.edu upgraded to SKS

2009-07-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/02/2009 07:29 PM, Jonathan Oxer wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 18:22 -0400, David Shaw wrote: On Jul 2, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Jonathon Weiss wrote: I think we've reached the point that if someone is still running PKS, they should either convert to something without the subkey problems, or

Re: [Sks-devel] pgp.mit.edu upgraded to SKS

2009-07-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/02/2009 10:07 PM, John Clizbe wrote: Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: http://pks.sourceforge.net/pgp-keyserver-folk.html The last message on that list was 02-Jul-2007. It's been silent since. Yeah, my message to that list bounced with: pks-keyserver-f...@alt.org: 64.71.163.201 does

Re: [Sks-devel] pgp.mit.edu upgraded to SKS

2009-07-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/02/2009 10:53 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: pks-keyserver-f...@alt.org: 64.71.163.201 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 Unrouteable address Giving up on 64.71.163.201. d'oh! i see now that i munged up the pks list address. But when i tried to send another message to what

Re: Service discovery (was Re: [Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net DNS unresponsive?)

2009-07-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/06/2009 06:56 PM, David Shaw wrote: DNS-SD can work with the zeroconf and mDNS stuff, but it is its own beast. What I am doing should lay some groundwork if someone wants to take things a step further (find your keyserver automatically on a LAN, for example), but that's not what I'm

[Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net empty again?

2009-08-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hi kristian-- it looks to me like pool.sks-keyservers.net is returning no records again: 0 d...@pip:/tmp/cdtemp.vYCai8$ dig pool.sks-keyservers.net @ns1.kfwebs.net ; DiG 9.5.1-P2 pool.sks-keyservers.net @ns1.kfwebs.net ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY,

Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Hi everybody!

2009-11-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/29/2009 07:03 PM, MailFighter.net Admin wrote: r...@mx4:/var/lib/sks# sks build -n 13 -cache 100 /var/sks/dump/*.pgp unknown timeout type argument to DB_ENV-rep_get_timeout Segmentation fault It SIGSEGV's immediately. It's not a RAM problem. I'll compile sks manually and ignore

Re: [Sks-devel] Hi everybody!

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/30/2009 09:05 AM, MailFighter.net Admin wrote: Also, my main interest is to have some sort of XML or machine parseable output over the http interface, so I can implement a set of features into Enigform. The output should already be machine-parseable (though it's not XML). Have you read

Re: [Sks-devel] Hi everybody!

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/30/2009 12:22 PM, MailFighter.net Admin wrote: My interest is in being able to get what keyids have signed a certain key, in a machine parsable format. Keyservers can't actually tell you that reliably. As far as i know, SKS does no cryptographic validation on the signatures it

Re: [Sks-devel] Memory Leak in recon server?

2010-02-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/01/2010 02:22 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: On 2010-02-01 at 11:47 +0100, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: my sks recon server is using waaay to much memory: lita:~# ps auxww | fgrep sks 126 4317 0.0 1.1 70584 47372 ?S 2009 35:20 /usr/sbin/sks db 126 4320 0.0 40.4

Re: [Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net having trouble?

2010-03-31 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Jonathan-- Thanks for the quick response! On 04/01/2010 12:30 AM, Jonathan Oxer wrote: Sorry I can't answer your other questions, but I just had a look in db.log and found ... * How often do you see queries? ...about 10k queries / day to keys.keysigning.org, which is in that pool.

Re: [Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net having trouble?

2010-03-31 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Ryan-- On 04/01/2010 12:45 AM, Ryan wrote: Couple thoughts, first of all if you have several machines doing regular queries you might look into running a local keyserver for your servers to sync off of.. if thats not a possibility you might locate your closest server and point it at them.

Re: [Sks-devel] Reconciling algorithm

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/28/2010 06:29 PM, Jesus Cea wrote: This is not good. An undocumented *key* feature, written in a obscure programming language :). I know it is not very appropiate to post this in this mailing list but... I was wondering if there is any kind of demand of an alternative OpenPGP

[Sks-devel] 2 out of 10 pool.sks-keyservers.net not responding to pings

2010-11-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
From where i sit, 2 out of 10 of the servers returned by pool.sks-keyservers.net are not responding to ICMP echo requests (pings): 193.174.13.74 (pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de) 94.46.216.2(sks.5coluna.com) Given that the machines do respond to http requests, i wonder why they don't respond to ICMP

Re: [Sks-devel] Kristian is alvie :-)

2011-03-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/18/2011 12:52 PM, Sebastian Urbach wrote: Got a mail from Kristian a few seconds ago. He sais something about hardware trouble. perhaps this concept of the pool needs some or all of the following to avoid future SPOFs: 0) hardware redundancy for the authoritative nameservers for

Re: [Sks-devel] Kristian is alvie :-)

2011-03-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/18/2011 02:38 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 01:45:52PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Kristian, i would happily offer zimmermann.mayfirst.org as a redundant authoritative DNS server -- we'd just need to coordinate how the pool gets published. I suggest DNS

[Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net in seahorse

2011-03-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi SKS folks-- I don't use seahorse regularly, but i recently convinced them to replace (old, broken, non-syncing) pgp.mit.edu with a pointer to pool.sks-keyservers.net: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645995 If anyone here uses seahorse regularly, and could test their fix and

[Sks-devel] zimmermann.mayfirst.org is running SKS 1.1.1

2011-04-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi folks-- I just upgraded zimmermann.mayfirst.org (a.k.a. keys.mayfirst.org) to run SKS 1.1.1 (using stock debian squeeze packages). The upgrade went pretty smoothly; i think there was about 5 minutes of downtime total. My notes on the upgrade from debian lenny to debian squeeze for this

Re: [Sks-devel] about ECC and collisions

2011-04-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/04/2011 06:40 AM, Jean-Jacques Brucker wrote: 1- As ECC crypto is soon available in gnupg, I am asking if sks key servers won't have problems managing them. (That is a great feature I am waiting for to use gpg with signing chains) But the ECC curves are smaller than RSA or DSA

Re: [Sks-devel] about ECC and collisions

2011-04-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/05/2011 09:33 AM, Jean-Jacques Brucker wrote: I didn't know that fingerprint was calculated with a timestamp. Do you have any idea of the reason(s) to do that ? You should read RFC 4880 (or just skim it and read the parts that most interest you): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880

Re: [Sks-devel] about ECC and collisions

2011-04-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/05/2011 11:35 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: The current V4 scheme (from memory, see RFC 4880 for specifics) to assign a fingerprint to a pubkey (including all of RSA/DSA/ECC) involves running a SHA1 digest across conventionally defined plaintext that involves the alogrithm parameters and

Re: [Sks-devel] Big amount of updated keys yesterday?

2011-04-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/12/2011 01:58 PM, John Clizbe wrote: My first big hit came from pgp.surfnet.nl ~0930 CDT (US/Central - UTC-5:00) Here's zimmermann.mayfirst.org's log of recent large (99) hashdumps via recon (timestamps are America/New_York): 0 zimmermann:~# cd /var/log/sks 0 zimmermann:/var/log/sks#

Re: [Sks-devel] Mass drop from pool

2011-04-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/19/2011 02:04 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: All email addresses are mangled in my client here, and you don't seem to have signed the message so I can't find it in a UID, but if you send me an email off-list I can send them to you. Is there a possibility of releasing them as free

[Sks-devel] minskyprimus.net domain expired

2011-05-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey sks people-- You might (like i did) have one of the following busted links in your SKS server index.html: http://www.nongnu.org/sks/ appears to redirect to http://minskyprimus.net/sks/ but the minskyprimus.net domain name appears to have expired last week. The content that used to live

Re: [Sks-devel] minskyprimus.net domain expired

2011-05-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/12/2011 10:53 PM, Yaron Minsky wrote: My apologies. I'm in the process of transferring the domain, and will reinstate it. It's worth noting that the best place for keeping info about sks is I think the google code site: http://code.google.com/p/sks-keyserver Thanks for the

Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large

2011-06-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/01/2011 01:14 PM, Xian Stannard wrote: I can see that it is bad to loose keys that are in use, but why must every key from day zero be kept? The deletion need not be probibitive of the key being uploaded again: that could trigger it to be re-propagated. I have (locally) a copy of key X

Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large

2011-06-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/01/2011 06:06 PM, Scott Grayban wrote: You can search the keyserver using just the email address and they would still get the new pub key The point is that they would not know that the old one had been revoked or expired. This is a significantly bad outcome. --dkg

Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 keyserver trying to synch with keyserver.kjsl.org

2011-06-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/16/2011 11:15 AM, Javier Henderson wrote: Who is running a keyserver at 2a01:4f8:100:2ffe::2? this is tomakin.h-ix.net, according to dig -x 2a01:4f8:100:2ffe::2 and the forward lookup provides the same mapping: dig tomakin.h-ix.net Whois provides some information about who to

[Sks-devel] keyserver status report for zimmermann.mayfirst.org seems wrong

2011-11-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hi folks (and kristian in particular)-- the pool is reporting that zimmermann.mayfirst.org is not responding: http://sks-keyservers.net/status/info/zimmermann.mayfirst.org but it appears to be responding to me: http://zimmermann.mayfirst.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=stats any idea why there's

[Sks-devel] simple DoS against SKS's HKP interface :/

2012-03-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hey SKS folks-- It appears that SKS 1.1.1's hkp interface is vulnerable to an ugly DoS attack by a client holding open a network connection without completing an HTTP request. Demonstration - This is pretty easy to demonstrate using two terminal windows: use netcat in one to connect

Re: [Sks-devel] simple DoS against SKS's HKP interface :/

2012-03-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/18/2012 10:36 AM, MailFighter.net Admin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/13/2012 06:08 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: It appears that SKS 1.1.1's hkp interface is vulnerable to an ugly DoS attack by a client holding open a network connection without

Re: [Sks-devel] simple DoS against SKS's HKP interface :/

2012-03-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi John-- Thanks for looking into this. On 03/18/2012 09:46 PM, John Clizbe wrote: The default setting for wserver_timeout is 180 seconds. Does setting it to a lower value in sksconf help? I just tested with 10 instead of 180. if i revert my nginx changes and allow sks back to listening on

Re: [Sks-devel] simple DoS against SKS's HKP interface :/

2012-03-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/19/2012 04:11 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: Here you go! Added ha.pool. The HTTP Server code is available at e.g. http://sks-keyservers.net/status/info/keys.kfwebs.net . Atm I'm only including nginx servers in the subset. Wow, very speedy -- thanks, Kristian! Works for me. I think

Re: [Sks-devel] simple DoS against SKS's HKP interface

2012-03-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/20/2012 12:22 AM, Pacal Mayan wrote: would implementing an accept filter help? i.e., accf_data or accf_http on the socket? I'm assuming you're talking about [0], which i think is FreeBSD only, right? i'd never seen this sockopt before, thanks for pointing it out! I haven't tested it

Re: [Sks-devel] simple DoS against SKS's HKP interface :/

2012-03-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/21/2012 08:08 AM, Phil Pennock wrote: For nginx, if you listen on a port and only have one vhost, with no default_server, will all requests for that hostname go to this server spec? I believe they will, yes. keys.mayfirst.org is also known as zimmermann.mayfirst.org (and as

Re: [Sks-devel] simple DoS against SKS's HKP interface :/

2012-03-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/25/2012 05:53 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: Did a few more changes[0] to speed up the IP lookup process, and included adding IPv6 for some subset pools (including the HA one) Hm, just looking for the regular IPv4 A records for the HA pool from different authoritative nameservers

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS debian package

2012-04-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/20/2012 01:17 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: If we're in need of 1.1.3 packages for Debian and Debian-derived distros, I might be able to help. My OCaml is no better than functional (pardon the pun) and my knowledge of .debs is far from comprehensive, but I have free time to devote to

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS debian package

2012-04-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/21/2012 06:56 AM, Andy Ruddock wrote: DB versions in Debian : stable has 4.6, 4.7 4.8 testing has 4.8, 5.1 5.3 unstable has 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1 5.3 Thanks for the summary! It's worth noting that the db maintainer in debian would like to move exclusively to 5.3 before wheezy is

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS debian package

2012-04-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/21/2012 09:57 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: I've never packaged for the Debian trees: I've only ever made .debs for my own local installation. Should I set up a VM with Debian Unstable and build against that? yes, building it against a debian unstable instance is a good idea.

Re: [Sks-devel] Reverse Proxy

2012-04-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/28/2012 09:26 AM, Jens Leinenbach wrote: As already discussed on this list, there is this old SKS bug using POST requests without sending the http version, so ngnix denies these POST request. And I didn't find any workaround, so that ngnix can fix these requests. It looks like you're

Re: [Sks-devel] bitbucket transition

2012-06-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/02/2012 06:45 AM, Phil Pennock wrote: Someone needs to repoint http://www.nongnu.org/sks/ before the GC site goes. I've done this now, as well as updating the Homepage link seen at: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sks/ (since i can never remember how to do this in savannah, it's

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

2012-06-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/25/2012 12:44 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: Please let me know if we should push the timeline some for the 1.1.2 minimum to get more time for testing, as originally stated my primary goal is getting to 1.1.3, so this shouldn't necessarily affect too much, we can still keep that at

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

2012-06-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/25/2012 02:16 AM, John Clizbe wrote: After Christoph's last email re mutex_set_max I checked my own databases, both of which were set to 64K. PTree was almost equally split between in-use and free. KDB was very close to running out with only about 3K left of the 64K. Would you mind

Re: [Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com down; Re: DB_ENV-set_lk_detect: unknown deadlock detection mode specified

2012-06-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/25/2012 04:43 AM, John Clizbe wrote: Christoph Egger wrote: The 1.1.1 package in stable is at 4.7. The 1.1.3 in unstable uses 5.1 and the backported sks 1.1.3 in stable-backports will be using 4.8 just to add to the confusion ;-) while (true) do head-desk done *shakes head

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

2012-06-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/25/2012 12:40 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: Again, thanks for helping out with the backport. you're welcome :) Ref the upgrade / backup bug, it might be better to upgrade the BDB store using the steps in https://bitbucket.org/yminsky/sks-keyserver/src/3d12f5a0d7cf/UPGRADING . This

Re: [Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com down; Re: DB_ENV-set_lk_detect: unknown deadlock detection mode specified

2012-06-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/25/2012 12:43 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: On Jun 25, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: I'm open to other suggestions. I believe that the current upgrade path (while hilarious in a sad sort of way) will actually work for most people. Bundling SKS+BDB

Re: [Sks-devel] Moving the main repo

2012-07-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/03/2012 07:41 PM, Yaron Minsky wrote: Just a quick note. We've moved the main repo from it's old location at https://bitbucket.org/yminsky/sks-keyserver to this one https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver Thanks for the heads-up, Yaron. I (think i)'ve updated the

Re: [Sks-devel] sks nginx config

2012-07-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/26/2012 10:40 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: add_header Via 1.1 keys.kfwebs.net; I've added a similar directive to the nginx configuration on zimmermann.mayfirst.org. --dkg signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

[Sks-devel] recon outage on zimmermann.mayfirst.org

2012-07-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey folks-- it looks like the sks recon process on zimmermann.mayfirst.org (a.k.a. keys.mayfirst.org) stopped about 10 days ago: 2012-07-16 05:28:34 Raising Sys.Break -- PTree may be corrupted: Bdb.DBError(unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize mutex region) yuck. After stopping sks, I

Re: [Sks-devel] recon outage on zimmermann.mayfirst.org

2012-07-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/27/2012 12:03 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: Running dbXY_stat -CA (for all status: -Cl is usually all that is needed) will display hung deadlocks. hm, what i'm seeing is that db4.8_stat -CA hangs itself, within a similar futex call: 0 zimmermann:~# strace -p $(pidof db4.8_stat) Process

Re: [Sks-devel] recon outage on zimmermann.mayfirst.org

2012-07-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi John-- thanks for the followup! On 07/27/2012 12:59 AM, John Clizbe wrote: echo KDB -- cd KDB sudo db53_recover -ev sudo db53_checkpoint -1 sudo db53_archive -dv sudo db53_recover -ev cd .. echo PTree -- cd PTree sudo db53_recover -ev sudo db53_checkpoint -1 sudo db53_archive

Re: [Sks-devel] Being dropped from the pool

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/27/2012 01:08 PM, Kiss Gabor (Bitman) wrote: I'm just came back from the holliday. welcome back! Surprisingly I found the keys.niif.hu is not in the pool. More precisely no servers running SKS 1.1.1 is included. I quickly scanned the recent mails of sks-devel but I found no

[Sks-devel] sks should not allow id cert packets after a subkey

2012-07-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Clint Adams just reported: http://bugs.debian.org/683328 This key is buggy: http://keys.mayfirst.org/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xED34CEABE27BAABC Note the 0x10 and 0x13 signatures on the 4096-bit subkey; these should not be there. Please check the signature types and only

Re: [Sks-devel] dealing with misplaced signatures

2012-07-31 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/31/2012 06:04 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: Currently we have a patch[0] ready that allows for these signatures to be cleaned in the getting (and vindex) of the key, A patch with the stated functionality would be a Good Thing. However, before creating a Pull Request into the SKS

Re: [Sks-devel] dealing with misplaced signatures

2012-08-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/01/2012 12:44 AM, David Shaw wrote: hiding the packets is potentially harmful. [...] hiding the packets from GPG prevents this repair from happening. After all, if GPG doesn't get the packets, it can't move them to the right place. This means the signatures are effectively lost,

Re: [Sks-devel] dealing with misplaced signatures

2012-08-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/01/2012 01:12 PM, David Shaw wrote: My point is that if you expect GPG to be able to fix a broken key, you need to pass back all the data, or GPG has nothing to work from. well, you could expect the GPG of the original uploader to fix the broken key before uploading it. Then the

Re: [Sks-devel] sks-keyservers.net: Now in the monkeysphere

2012-08-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/10/2012 01:34 PM, Gabor Kiss wrote: [kristian fiskerstrand wrote:] As an FYI; I've now added HTTPS/TLS support to https://sks-keyservers.net . It is part of the monkeysphere[0], i.e. using a self-signed certificate that can be verified through the Web of Trust of OpenPGP. The KeyID of

Re: [Sks-devel] Request for SKS gossip peers

2012-09-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/08/2012 08:23 AM, Andreas Thulin wrote: Would you say an e-mail to the sks devel sendlist explaining my predicament could be one way of getting further in the process? yes, it would. you're already sending mail to sks-devel, you know :) please indicate specifically what you tried, what

Re: [Sks-devel] sks-keyservers.net New HKPS subpool added

2012-10-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/05/2012 06:23 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: Speaking for myself, I only use TLSv1+ and my nginx is built with SNI support, so if you want to figure out a policy for handing out certs, I can add a new cert for SNI hostnames in *.pool.sks-keyservers.net. alternately (or in addition?), we could

Re: [Sks-devel] expiration date in machine readable results

2012-10-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/18/2012 07:39 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: get_times in ParsePGP.ml checks the subpacket type against ssp_exptime_id, which is set to 3 (which is correct, afaict [3]). ah, looking a bit closer, i think i understand the situation here. when gpg sets the key expiration time, it does so

Re: [Sks-devel] Idea: dump should create keycount.txt

2012-11-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/07/2012 12:06 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote: that was exactly the same what thought of. I'ld just go a little step further to xml, so machines could parse it more easily. for simple data like we're talking about, Kim's proposed syntax seems at least as easy for a machine to parse as XML, and

Re: [Sks-devel] sks responding extremely slowly if at all

2013-02-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/25/2013 03:21 PM, David Benfell wrote: If I'm reading this right, it's still running, but these timeouts are ridiculous: graton% gpg --recv-key 2512E3C7 gpg: requesting key 2512E3C7 from hkp server disunitedstates.com gpg: keyserver timed out gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver

Re: [Sks-devel] Peering wiki text updated

2013-02-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/27/2013 12:36 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: Are the ServerAliases strictly necessary for a port binding to 11371? Presumably you're not using canonical names to determine the service. If the aliases really are necessary, keep in mind that some pools are using a CNAME to

Re: [Sks-devel] Keyserver operators with reverse proxies: read this please

2013-03-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/01/2013 02:03 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: I have updated https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/wiki/Peering already. Thank you for sorting this out, Phil, and for taking it all the way to concrete suggestions. This is really helpful and useful. nginx - [...]

[Sks-devel] stuck in Reconciliation attempt from ADDR_INET [XXXXX]:33091 while gossip disabled. Ignoring.

2013-04-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I realized today that zimmermann.mayfirst.org (aka keys.mayfirst.org) had dropped out of the main SKS pool. [0] https://sks-keyservers.net/status/ suggested it was 4K keys behind everyone else. Looking in the recon logs, i saw at least five days of: Reconciliation attempt from ADDR_INET

Re: [Sks-devel] sks 1.1.4 in debian/ubuntu

2013-06-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/26/2013 02:36 AM, H.-Dirk Schmitt wrote: just a little question - is somebody working on the debian integration of 1.1.4 #690135 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690135This would help to fix also #1096116 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sks/+bug/1096116 on

Re: [Sks-devel] Raising Sys.Break -- PTree may be corrupted: Failure(add_to_node: attempt to reinsert element into prefix tree)

2013-07-31 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/31/2013 10:57 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Well the problem for me is that it's not yet in Debian and I'm not very keen on keeping keeping it up to date manually. Does anyone else here know what's the status there? Christoph Martin seems to be a bit inactive :( I've got a

[Sks-devel] sks 1.1.4 in debian experimental

2013-08-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/31/2013 11:10 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I've got a version of 1.1.4 that i'm considering uploading to experimental soon, but i haven't tested it yet, so i don't really want to foist it on the public. I've now tested sks 1.1.4, and it works for me. I've uploaded it to the debian

[Sks-devel] ks-status-json.php should include HKPS info [was: Re: ks-status-json.php should emit Content-Type: application/json]

2013-08-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/01/2013 11:55 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I was just checking on keyserver status here: https://sks-keyservers.net/status/ks-status-json.php?server=zimmermann.mayfirst.org hm, and while i'm at it, i note that the json version doesn't mention HKPS, which is mentioned on the non

Re: [Sks-devel] sks 1.1.4 fails to start

2013-08-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/16/2013 10:03 AM, James Cloos wrote: It looks like this might be a debian error. sks-1.1.4 from debian experimental fails reliably when using sid, as of the latest upgrade to libdb5.1 (5.1.29-7) in sid. thanks for reporting this as http://bugs.debian.org/719876 -- it sounds to me like

Re: [Sks-devel] sks recon failed with Sys_error(Bad file descriptor) during reload

2013-08-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Wed 2013-06-26 11:32:08 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I'm running sks 1.1.3 on a debian system, and it uses the logrotate package to ensure that the logs don't get out of control. this means that they rotate daily, and when they rotate, the system invokes: /etc/init.d/sks reload

[Sks-devel] SKS should not accept or replay non-exportable certifications

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
SKS appears to be in violation of RFC4880 by freely importing and exporting non-exportable certifications. Background -- The OpenPGP specification includes a certification subpacket known as Exportable Certification. When present, and set to 0, it indicates that the certification is

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS should not accept or replay non-exportable certifications

2013-09-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/14/2013 05:00 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: [dkg wrote]: I have told numerous people that the keyserver network will not propagate local signatures. This is true. No, unfortunately, it is not true in any way for SKS 1.1.4 (and probably earlier versions, though i have not tested). In

[Sks-devel] SKS should not accept or propagate User IDs with no self-sigs [was: SKS should not accept or replay non-exportable certifications]

2013-09-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi John, all-- On 09/14/2013 09:46 PM, John Clizbe wrote: Careful here. Gossip is referring to recon and there is no other option in recon. Keys are just blobs of bits with a hash value. We can control what we accept, to try and make it conform to RFC 4880, et alia,... as much as possible,

[Sks-devel] why does SKS have /dev/random open for writing?

2013-09-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hi SKS folks-- I was just looking at the behavior of sks 1.1.4, and i noticed that it seems to have /dev/random open for writing: 0 zimmermann:~# lsof /dev/random COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME sks 742 debian-sks3w CHR1,8 0t0 1244 /dev/random sks

Re: [Sks-devel] why does SKS have /dev/random open for writing?

2013-09-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/19/2013 01:39 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: gentoo1 sks # lsof /dev/random COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME sks 11839 root3r CHR1,8 0t0 1157 /dev/random sks 31332 root3r CHR1,8 0t0 1157 /dev/random hm, so it's open for

Re: [Sks-devel] Quickie Script to Check your status in the pool

2013-10-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/05/2013 05:30 PM, Todd Lyons wrote: Hey all, if you're like me, you are curious what pools you might be serving data for at any given point in time. The status page at http://www.sks-keyservers.net/status/ tells you what it thinks of your keyserver, but it doesn't tell you all of the

[Sks-devel] sks recon without sks db

2013-10-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hi SKS folks-- I'm working on systemd service files for sks, for people who want to run sks under that initialization/supervision system. I was wondering if sks recon is able to do any useful work if sks db is not running. I'm not clear on the specific mechanics of the recon protocol -- do

Re: [Sks-devel] Status flags are red

2013-10-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/28/2013 08:22 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: I use StartCom for my SSL CA provider and they allow SANs to be added for SNI. I don't think that startcom is an appropriate CA for the current hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net. In the current setup, anyone who has configured keyserver

Re: [Sks-devel] pain of joining hkps -- reverse proxy config in apache issue with hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net

2013-11-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/08/2013 03:33 PM, Nat Howard wrote: Unfortunately, I made the mistake of asking Kristian if I was done now. And his answer was, Make sure to setup the vhost for hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net and he was kind enough to give me the exact command that should work: curl --cacert

[Sks-devel] IPv4 vs. IPv6? -- Reconciliation attempt from unauthorized host, but host is authorized

2013-11-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i'm running sks 1.1.4 on Debian GNU/Linux, wheezy, amd64 (x86_64) platform. I see the following situation in the logs of the recon process (this is just an example, it seems to happen to all my IPv4 peers): 2013-11-27 12:37:17 address for sks-peer.spodhuis.org:11370 changed from [] to

Re: [Sks-devel] wiki man-page link; readthedocs.org ?

2013-12-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 12/01/2013 09:49 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: If anyone knows of a similar documentation hosting project which might be a better match, please do let me know. This isn't exactly what you want, but http://manpages.debian.org/man8/sks should provide you with the latest man pages available in

Re: [Sks-devel] IPv4 vs. IPv6? -- Reconciliation attempt from unauthorized host, but host is authorized

2013-12-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/27/2013 04:30 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: On 2013-11-27 at 12:57 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: i'm running sks 1.1.4 on Debian GNU/Linux, wheezy, amd64 (x86_64) platform. I see the following situation in the logs of the recon process (this is just an example, it seems to happen to all

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