On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:13:22PM +0200, Kim Minh Kaplan wrote: > > Obviously Arnold is not referring to the cryptographic key size but to > the complete OpenPGP key size, the whole shebang. 0xd49ae731 has many > uids each signed with loads of signatures. It is close to one million > bytes in its armored form. > > Still I do not see how limiting the size of a single key would protect > the SKS key servers from a DOS. To an attacker uploading many huge > keys has about the same difficulty as uploading many many big keys.
Even worse, then. I don't see this use as an abuse, but as legitimate. We should be able to accommodate it, even if it is an outlier. -- David Benfell <[email protected]> See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment.
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