Re: Building SKS on Alpine Linux 3.12 with ocaml 4.08

[Skip Carter]

What are the characteristics of a poison key ? What makes it bad ?
I wonder if there is an algorithmic way to deal with them instead of a
blacklist.

On Thu, 2020-10-15 at 21:45 -0700, Todd Fleisher wrote:
> > 
> > On Oct 15, 2020, at 17:58, Ángel <angel@pgp.16bits.net> wrote:
> > 
> > First of all, those patches protect against a single poison key,
> > 0xE41ED3A107A7DBC7. By skipping the merge of changes to it, I
> > think.
> 
> I suppose one is better than none. I also block several other
> (popular?) keys that are problematic at the NGINX level after having
> issues with them in the past causing server instability. It’s far
> from a perfect system, but between that and automatic service
> restarts when SKS crashes I rarely have to touch anything anymore.
> *knocks on wood*
> 


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