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[MFPA]

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Hi


On Saturday 17 December 2011 at 4:34:23 PM, in
<mid:4EECC48F.1080909 at jeromebaum.com>, Jerome Baum wrote:


> On 2011-12-17 16:42, Aaron Toponce wrote:
>> I guess Anonymous or LULZ Security, or the like, could do it out of sheer
>> entertainment, but it would die quickly, as the effort in maintaining the
>> noise outweighs the benefit of annoying users by several orders of
>> magnitude.

> I think the point was that with the current keyserver
> setup, it wouldn't die off at all and there is
> basically no cost to maintaining the noise. You can
> easily grow the database to a crazy size and it'll be
> difficult to shrink it back down, as the keyservers
> keep syncing and you have to coordinate the entire
> network or the noise will just keep coming back.


I guess that either breaks (or at least greatly shrinks) the network.
Or else the coding effort is put into solving a problem that actually
exists, and a new generation of keyservers comes into being. At the
moment the problem doesn't exist.


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