Re: surfnet keyserver

Teun Nijssen wrote:

> hi thomas,
> 
> 
>>On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:49:04PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
>>
>>>I'm probably going to bring up an SKS in Australia shortly and was
>>>wondering if anyone had already packaged up SKS for Debian, or if I
>>>should do it.
>>
>>https://svn.clearairturbulence.org/debian-sks/trunk/sks/
> 
> 
> having flown 730Mm great-circle, i don't like cat; my preference is
> the sweet rumbling of the jet stream over the northern atlantic because
> it always brings me home sweet home faster. airplane are safer than diese
> verdammte fahrrader.
> 
> but i like the sks debian distro ;-]
> 
> now for something completely different: IPv6 keyservers...? ocaml ipv6?

Please pardon the candor, but..
For the love of GOD can't someone just fix PKS's subkey problem?  I 
think it's a horrible waste for such decent software to go by the 
wayside due to the lack of this feature.  If I were an experienced 
programmer I'd certainly do it myself, no question.  The db4 version 
I've been running is fast and stable, and has had a number of nasty bugs 
already fixed.  How difficult could it be to finally slay this one?  I 
know Jason has mostly done it.

With all due respect to Yaron, I feel that it's just too early in the 
game for me to use something as new as sks.  It seems to be quite a good 
system, but I just won't use it until it has aged quite a bit.  For all 
I know it has nastier DoS's/exploits than PKS already does just waiting 
to be found.

Ethan