Re: [Sks-devel] Keys size repartition (was Re: Unusual traffic for key 0x69D2EAD9 and 0xB33B4659)

[Kim Minh Kaplan]

Jason Harris writes:
>
>> Kim Minh Kaplan wrote:
>> 
>> Jason Harris writes:
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>>> Cool!  What tool/code did you use?
>> 
>> Homegrown tools. I use a simple C program to read KDB/keys and create
>a
>> single PGP file for each key. I can then easily use traditionnal
>tools
>> to get some interesting numbers. Mainly find, sort, sed, uniq, bc.
>
>Interesting.  I could use a keydump like that to more fully populate a
>hockeypuck server without enabling gossiping.

As much as I try to come up with a solution, I can't see how to distribute such 
a dump efficiently. We are speaking millions of files here.

>Currently, hockeypuck
>chokes on several SKS keydump files and apparently needs to gossip to
>fill in the gaps.  I now see you posted a link to the program to fetch
>a single key on 2019-01-19, thanks for that!

I'll try and find some time to clean-up and post the program to dump the whole 
database.

>We just need more people hacking hockeypuck...

SKS has the same problem. And we also need a new policy for accepting data in 
the network. All these abuses are killing it.

Kim Minh.