On 7 October 2011 17:54, Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 12:46:32PM +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote: >> This is awesome, thanks! > > No problem. It's pretty crazy stuff. > >> Is it possible to get a dump of all the signatures in a particular key >> server? > > Possible? Yes. Probable? Maybe. I once setup my own public keyserver, just > because, and found it to chew through 20GB or so, iirc. It's been about 5 > years since setting it up, so I'm guessing it's grown since then. > > If you want all the keys from a keyserver, you'll probably have the best > luck building your own keyserver, taking all the public keys, building a > keyring, and examining the Web of Trust on that. With that said, I would be > willing to bet that something of that magnitude would be rather CPU and RAM > intensive. You would probably want to take advantage of some pretty serious > hardware to make it practical.
Thanks I may try and set up a key server in that case. Tho I did read a report that it can be more work than anticipated. > > If someone has better advice, you'll likely get it here. :) > >> BTW: Just as a side note, I am studying "web of trust" as a general >> concept (hopefully to become part of a PhD). There is also the "FOAF" >> web of trust, which is bigger (say 100 million plus) but perhap not as >> high quality as GPG. Im also looking at the data in >> http://convergence.io/ ... it might be an idea to try and map all the >> different web of trusts on the internets and collate the data together > > Will your discertation be available publicly? I'm still at a very early stage. But I see no point in writing a phd ("contribution to knowledge") unless it is publicly available. > > -- > . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . > . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o > o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
