Re: keyserver database dump from pgp.mit.edu

Jason Harris <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:53:45 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.pgp.keyserver-folk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 03:07:51AM -0500, Jonathon Weiss wrote:

> Since I know people like to grab these occasionally to make sure the
> incrementals didn't drop anything...
> 
> There is a (week old) dump of the keyserver database on pgp.mit.edu
> (AKA pgpkeys.mit.edu) now available at http://pgp.mit.edu/snap-200410/

Thank you, Jonathon!

Folks, I'll be feeding this into my (test) SKS server and anything
new that pops out will get sent to my pks server and, if it is also
new to it, will be distributed by pksd as incrementals.  I'll also
publish (or confirm, if you beat me to it) the key count of this
MIT keydump.

For those (pks admins) that merged my last pks reference keydump from
2004-04-18 (or any later full keydump from kjsl), I can create a much
smaller delta from it that will include anything that may have gotten
lost since then.  This will include any new keys from this MIT keydump
and will remove the need to feed an entire 2GB keydump through your
pks servers.

Finally, I have a premade keydump from yesterday's keyanalyze that
I can make available and then use as a new/second reference keydump
from which to produce deltas.  (Such deltas will also include any new
data from the MIT keydump.)

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Jason Harris           |  NIC:  JH329, PGP:  This _is_ PGP-signed, isn't it?
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          Got photons?   (TM), (C) 2004
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