Re: Preserving public keyserver network (Re: Which keyserver)

2020-10-24 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
If it is a technical challenge and Kristian as head (pool maintainer), why does he not ask publicity the hockeypuck author, dkg and the sequoia-team, for help? As an example, if I would be Kristian I would do so, set-up with my pool gang a hockeypuck test-net (bootstrapped with a handful of pub ke

Re: Preserving public keyserver network (Re: Which keyserver)

2020-10-24 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> On 24 Oct 2020, at 10:41, Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users > wrote: > > there can > be no consensus achieved between privacy loving EU citizens and (US > based) SKS operators Most SKS operators are (were?) based outside the US. This is primarily a technical challenge, not a political one. A

Re: Preserving public keyserver network (Re: Which keyserver)

2020-10-24 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
I can only speak for myself and see that when it comes to SKS that there can be no consensus achieved between privacy loving EU citizens and (US based) SKS operators, while Mailvelope and Hagrid respect the users wishes. With that being said I am out and better let Mr Barr and Mr de Kerchove decid

Re: Preserving public keyserver network (Re: Which keyserver)

2020-10-23 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 23/10/2020 13:23, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > * Hints could take the form of fake preferred-keyserver subpackets, in a > similar manner to fake "fpr:DEADBEEF" user-id packets that have been > previously discussed to support UID-less key refresh on legacy systems > (could both be combined in a sing

Re: Preserving public keyserver network (Re: Which keyserver)

2020-10-23 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 23/10/2020 10:14, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > So yes, I also believe that improvements to hockeypuck or a fresh > implementation could step by step get the public keyserver network up again. I've thought about this quite a bit after my previous attempts to reconcile recon with selective retention

Preserving public keyserver network (Re: Which keyserver)

2020-10-23 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Am Samstag 19 September 2020 23:34:32 schrieb Stefan Claas: > I stand by my points that hockeypuck can solve the issues To me it makes sense to preserve a decentalised network of public keyservers [1]. In my post Preserving non-central and privacy with a "permission recording keyserver" [R