Re: [Sks-devel] The pool is shrinking

[Stefan Claas]

Hendrik Visage wrote:

> 
> 
> > On 16 Aug 2019, at 18:01 , Andrew Gallagher <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > Signed PGP part
> > On 16/08/2019 16:13, Stefan Claas wrote:
> >> It should tell users that SKS operators share no dumps with 3rd
> >> parties for key analysis, i.e. social graph research etc. Those
> >> who publish a warrant canary can stay in the pool, while others
> >> who don't like to do so will be excluded from the pool.
> > 
> > That's an utterly worthless exercise, considering that keyserver
> > operators can't vouch for any other keyserver operators, and any or all
> > of them could be three-letter agencies in disguise. You don't need a
> > warrant to scrape publicly-available data, and you don't need to be in
> > the pool to sync with pool keyservers.
> 
> Not to mention that the latest dumps are publicly available for syncing
> purposes...

This is well known and Kristian could exclude this person from the pool.

Regards
Stefan

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