On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Brian Minton <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > It's fixed now, and I've loaded a recent dump from > rsync://keyserver.secretresearchfacility.com/dump (side note, having > those be available via rsync is a huge timesaver) with 3736362 keys, so > I should start gossiping again.
You know, I wonder if it'd make sense to have key dumps from one or two sources (like the secretresearchfacility.com keyserver) distributed by some peer-to-peer system, like BitTorrent Sync[1] (free-as-in-beer, but not -as-in-speech). That way the keyserver could make the dump and have it synced out to everyone who's interested. Since the week-by-week changes are relatively small and most of the dump files won't change, syncing would take place quickly. [1] Regular BitTorrent might also work, but is designed for a static, unchanging set of files: a new torrent file would need to be generated and distributed with each update. BitTorrent Sync is designed specifically to keep a frequently-updated set of files in sync between different systems. The source of the dumps could distributed "read-only" keys to everyone, who could then download the files from the source (and each other) but only changes made by the source would propagate; people with read-only keys can't push out changes to others. -- Pete Stephenson _______________________________________________ Sks-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel
