This IS about GD - a proposal on dealing with the problem

Zeljko Vrba zvrba at globalnet.hr
Sun Sep 11 09:32:55 CEST 2005


Alphax wrote:
> 
> However, the keyserver would then have to verify the signature of the
> uploading key... how much of an extra burden would this be?
> 
In what way "extra burden"? Computationally (CPU), programming
complexity, or...?

Computationally - it would be done only oncem on key upload. It is not
really an expensive operation - the same as verifying a GPG signature.
And I think that modern servers have much spare CPU time..
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