SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

[Mirimir]

On 06/29/2019 11:26 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f
> 
> I stand by what I wrote.
> 
> As usual, don't read the comments unless you want to despair for humanity.

It sounds like SKS is dead meat. And hagrid is coming. And you advise:

| High-risk users should stop using the keyserver network immediately.

So OK, I can purge requests to SKS keyservers from my machines. But what
about upstream impacts? As I understand it, GnuPG authentication is
pervasive. And I suspect that getting missing keys from SKS is common.
As an error trap, if nothing else.

How bad could this get?