Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!

[Sven Kocksch]

Zitat von Tobias Frei <address@hidden>:

> Hi,
>
> to be honest, it somehow makes me happy that we're finally being forced to
> find a solution for this. It could have started worse.
>
> I think the only reasonable solution is that every server operator gets a
> local blacklist that can be filled with keys / signatures / regex etc. and
> that only prevents matched entries from being saved to the database. To
> remove a key from all servers, all operators would need to add it to the
> blacklist then. This prevents abuse of the mechanism while giving easy,
> effective control over the own database to every server operator.
>
> We could then discuss or suggest entries for the blacklist that everyone
> should add, but it would be the responsibility and choice of every admin to
> follow the suggestions.
>
> Best regards,
> Tobias Frei
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2016, 06:34 Kiss Gabor (Bitman) <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Guys,
> >
> > Have you remembered I'm continuosly worrying about
> > trolls pumping 10-20 millions of dummy keys into key servers?
> > It is started...
> >
> > http://keys.niif.hu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x0B7F8B60E3EDFAE3
> > (Scroll over the whole page.)
> >
> > So we must hard think how to delete keys/signatures.
> >
> > Gabor
> >
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Hello Tobias,

If a server rejects large amounts of keys wouldn't it fall out of the  
pool because of missing keys?
(Given that a good portion of the servers in the pool still accept  
these keys and so the average number of keys is higher than yours)


Greetings
Sven

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