Re: [Sks-devel] Broken keyservers (413 Request Entity Too Large)

[Arnold]

On 04-09-14 22:26, David Benfell wrote:
> Even worse, then. I don't see this use as an abuse, but as legitimate.
> We should be able to accommodate it, even if it is an outlier.

You mean no limit at all? RFC 4880 has no limit, so a key of size 1+ Tbyte can 
be
totally valid. It might even make sense to have such key for a certain purpose.
However, I see no reason why we should accommodate distribution of special 
(large)
keys as a free community service. On average keys are only about 2 kbyte on 
disk.

Idealistic, we should go for 100% of the keys and trust the good intentions of 
the
people uploading keys. But, we all know there are people with bad intentions 
too.

Practically, rejecting some keys seems reasonable to me. Especially if we can
prevent DOS and abuse of our servers that way. A large key might as well 
contain a
collection of HD pictures of a certain kind.

Arnold