Re: [Sks-devel] SKS apocalypse mitigation

[Andrew Gallagher]

> On 5 May 2018, at 09:38, Andrew Gallagher <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
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>> On 5 May 2018, at 09:03, Phil Pennock <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> While you could modify the protocol to do something like announce a
>> key-count first, that's still only protection against accidental
>> misconfiguration
> 

Sorry for the double. We don’t need to modify the protocol to enable such 
checks. Whenever a server tries to recon with us, we can perform a callback 
against its status page and run whatever sanity tests we want before deciding 
whether to allow recon to proceed. This could be rolled out without any need 
for coordination. 

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