hashed user IDs [was: Re: Security of the gpg private keyring?]

Ben McGinnes ben at adversary.org
Sun Mar 13 09:04:39 CET 2011


On 13/03/11 5:32 PM, John Clizbe wrote:
> Ben McGinnes wrote:
>>
>> Thanks.  I think I might have to play around with installing a local
>> server.  I don't have a big enough link to run a public server, but
>> running a local one would probably serve as an interesting exercise.
> 
> I think that's my problem with sks.keyservers.net, getting too many
> timeouts.  Have to beat on AT&T *again*

Even though my poor little ADSL connection is fairly small, at least I
do have a very competent and responsive ISP.

>> Is the source on the sks-servers.net site or should I be looking
>> elsewhere?
> 
> Originally @ https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sks/
> 
> Currently at Google™ Code: http://code.google.com/p/sks-keyserver/

Thanks.

> my branch: hg clone https://johnclizbe-sks-keyserver.googlecode.com/hg/
> johnclizbe-sks-keyserver

What does your branch have that the main one doesn't?

> You need Berkeley DB >= 4.6 and ocaml >= 3.11.0

Cool.

> I've built on Linux, Mac OS (MacPorts), and Solaris (Blastwave)

I'd be building on Linux and there will be plenty of examples of that
floating around.


Regards,
Ben

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