Re: Debian SKS packages was: new pgp key server

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:17:37 +0200, Peter Palfrader <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Anand Kumria wrote:
> 
> > There is but afaik it hasn't been uploaded to the archive.
> >
> > I believe the debian-sks maintainers were awaiting some changes to ocaml
> > but I haven't been keeping with this issue lately.
> 
> Last time I tried building my package it worked more or less.  However I
> have not uploaded it yet and don't think I will in the near future.  sks
> needs proper documentation first, and it should handle things like
> merging and taking dumps online (i.e. concurrent access to the db).
> Then there's some bug with sks serving and distributing broken keys,

Your complaints mostly seem pretty accurate.  I'm not sure what you
mean by this one, though.  What's the bug with SKS serving and
distributing broken keys?  I don't know of any bugs where SKS mangles
keys.  It does, of course, distribute crypotgraphically broken keys,
but that is because, like PKS, SKS doesn't include any cryptography. 
I don't consider that a bug.  So I'm curious as to what problem you're
referring to.

> which isn't fixed yet.  Sks' logging is very poor.  Another neat thing to
> ease setting it up would be being able to gossip sync the DB from nil.
> 
> All in all, while I think sks is a very useful peace of software, and it
> certainly is better than pks in a lot of aspects.  However, I don't
> think it's ready yet to be in Debian.  Unfortunately I don't have much
> time to fix those things myself.  And I don't like ocaml too.

Ocaml is an acquired taste, I'm afraid.  I do think you're missing
out, though....

> Greetings,
> --
> Peter
> 
> 
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