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RE: PGP kerserver infrastructure

  • From: John Fraizer
  • Date: Thu Jun 29 01:34:40 2000 
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:

> requirements for a keyserer are. I asked Randy Harmon, the administrator
> for certserver.pgp.com, to see if he could answer that question for
> me. His response is below.
> 

<snip>

> If we assume 10 times the volume as today (1.1 million keys on the
> server), and 10 servers to balance the search load, then the
> bandwidth for each server would be roughly:
> 
> 	Searches: 		160 MB 
> 	Adds/Mods: 		 28 MB
> 	Replications: 	 28 MB outgoing 
> 				280 MB incoming
> 			=============
> 				496 MB/day
> 				 15 GB/month
> 
> Multiply by 10 for 100,000,000 keys.
> 
> Randy
> 


OK.  So if we take 15GB/mo, it's aproximately 45Kb/s of bandwidth.  Even
at 3rd Tier pricing, I don't know anyone who uses PGP who wouldn't be
willing to donate $45/mo to the cause. 

If someone wants to donate the hardware, we'll gladly host a keyserver.

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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc