[cks-devl] Re: cks and being part of CryptNET

[V. Alex Brennen]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote:

> We have tested cks-0.1.0 and the project is really interesting. We would 
> like to be part of the cryptnet network (for Belgium or/and Luxembourg) 
> and would like to know how we have to proceed. We would like to know the 
> bandwidth required for the sync in the CryptNET network ? (more than 2 
> Mbit/s for the sync ?) 

The initial load is ~6GB to copy the current full database.  After that 
is is probably average 30KB/day.  It's no where near 2Mbit/s.  The
main server gnv.us.ks.cryptnet.net has average of about 270Kb/day.
So it's a really small web site.  


> We would like to know if the cks_sync is compatible with other HKP server 
> (like the pgp.mit.edu) ? 

It is planned to be, but currently the functionality is not there
yet. I'm still working on development.  It will probably be another
month or two before I can release a version with this functionality.

So, you may want to consider running pks if you want to get a 
keyserver up right away and then switching over to cks when 
it reaches 1.0.  However, if you want to help with development
it would be great if you could run the current version and
submit patches.


Thanks,

        - Alex