[Sks-devel] history

[Michael Jones]

Why do all of the sks keyservers that are in sync have only a history of
2 days?

in sync


vs:

out of sync

[Michael Jones]

also, i can see there seems to be alot more keys the last 2 days;

key count

Post by Michael Jones
Why do all of the sks keyservers that are in sync have only a history
of 2 days?
in sync
out of sync

[Michael Jones]

I suspect the injection of keys triggers the berkley db auto-clean job,
which wipes out the daily historic data (maybe).

Post by Michael Jones
also, i can see there seems to be alot more keys the last 2 days;
key count

Post by Michael Jones
Why do all of the sks keyservers that are in sync have only a history
of 2 days?
in sync
out of sync

[Shengjing Zhu]

Post by Michael Jones
also, i can see there seems to be alot more keys the last 2 days;

There's someone abusing/attacking the sks network, these keys look like

/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x54ECA4E4B7509280

pub 1024R/B7509280 2018-07-22

uid DLTLYUPYVRSPOAXPURYBXLEVLWCPRW
sig sig3 B7509280 2018-07-22 __________ __________ [selfsig]

uid DNHALKLJXDGZXHDCKNHHOJDIWSUJEF
sig sig3 B7509280 2018-07-22 __________ __________ [selfsig]

uid FFQEYQHYIPGDUMJPIZMSGVKECXIZRP
sig sig3 B7509280 2018-07-22 __________ __________ [selfsig]

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