I recently got access to some free server space, so I threw up a dump
available via HTTPS, FTP, and that will be updated daily.

https://research.daylightpirates.org/sks-dumps/
ftp://research.daylightpirates.org/sks-dumps/
rsync://research.daylightpirates.org/sks-dumps/

Daniel

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Brian Minton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stephan, do you have any plans to resume updating your keyserver dumps?  I
> really liked having them available via rsync.
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Pete Stephenson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 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
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