GPL'd OpenPGP Keyserver

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Tue Feb 20 04:06:25 CET 2001


"V. Alex Brennen" <vab at cryptnet.net> writes:

>I've made a great number of improvements over Marc's design, including RDBMS
>ties to increase speed, better key handling, socket based syncing with other
>keyservers (rather than POP email based), etc...

I looked at this in some detail when I wrote my own code to do this, the
results were published at last year's ACSAC conference,
http://www.acsac.org/2000/, with a somewhat longer version available from my
home page, http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/ (look for "certificate
store", it should be about halfway down the page).  The paper looks at ways to
access the RDBMS, tuning things for fast access/lookups, etc etc.  It's for
X.509 certs, but since I just treat them as opaque blobs (which is about the
most useful thing you can do with them) it should work just as well for PGP
keys.

Peter.




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