New keyserver at keys.openpgp.org - what's your take?

Andrew Gallagher andrewg at andrewg.com
Wed Jul 3 17:20:37 CEST 2019


On 03/07/2019 16:13, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> potential DoS vector? (probably not the most efficient one, but...)

As in DoS amplification? I create a load of keys with a victim's URL in
the `keyserver` field and the pool does my dirty work? Interesting, but
so long as the keyservers' spiders are well behaved, it should be no
worse than being indexed by Google.

-- 
Andrew Gallagher

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