SKS Protocol

[John Clizbe]

John Clizbe wrote:
> Nicholas Cole wrote:
> 
>> I was mostly interested in exactly how they made the hash of each key, but
>> it's also a really interesting and subtle problem they've fixed in getting
>> such reliable and rapid distribution of the database.
> 
> I need to go check before I answer, but I can tell you hashes are 128 bits.

hashes are created calling the Ocaml standard library function Digest.string
which is built on MD5.

Exact details are in keyHash.ml [0]

-John

[0] https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/src/ac4a7159ca28/keyHash.ml

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