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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: public key service
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:21:54PM -0700, L. Sassaman wrote: > > > how can providers help? and now, not in the vague future. > > Immediately? Multiple providers could set up a series of servers that all > syncronize with each other in a load-balanced system where they all share > the same hostname, so that the user doesn't have to search for a working > server when one goes down. I'm going to try to keep this operational, but it's hard because you're going to find that support for making a robust keyserver network hinges upon people agreeing that such a service is needed, and many PGP users are going to tell you that such a keyserver violates the PGP trust model. Discussion in detail as to why that's so is seriously off-topic, and so I'm not going to try to defend the point one way or the other; I'm merely commenting that many PGP users will think it's so, and that's enough for the purposes of this discussion. Factor that into your calculations of how much money it's worth it to spend on this.
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