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Re: [Sks-devel] Separate P2P Protocol Should Be Developed


From: Scott Grayban
Subject: Re: [Sks-devel] Separate P2P Protocol Should Be Developed
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 23:06:31 -0700

I would be willing to pitch in help.

On Jun 1, 2011 10:26 PM, "oakwhiz" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> I'm looking into it... at this point, any keyserver that I write would
> be purely experimental, and would probably consist of either a layer
> on an existing P2P system (i.e. BitTorrent) or a fork of an existing
> open source project. My hands are full with other projects at the
> moment, though, so it will be a little while before I actually try
> something.
>
> - -oakwhiz.
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> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Robert J. Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I'm starting to think that a non-reconciliation keyserver protocol should be developed separately from SKS. This will allow the robustness of SKS to coexist with the convenience of traditional peer-to-peer networks where nodes with lower redundancy are constantly being added and removed.
>>>
>>
>> This is one of those things that is far, far easier said than done.  Yaron Minsky wrote the SKS algorithms as part of his doctoral thesis in computer science: that should give you an idea of the amount of work involved.
>>
>> If you wish to pursue this I wish you well and I'd be happy to point you to some good academic references, but in my experience when people talk about how something "should be done," that usually means "I want someone else to do it for me."
>>
>> This is Free Software.  If you think it should be done -- do it, and I wish you well!
>>
>>
>>
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