SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

[Ryan McGinnis]

I can’t speak for others, but I wasn’t suggesting you were personally responsible for where things are right now, only making observations about the utility of continuing to use the product going forward, and what the targeted end users likely expect from the software.

-Ryan McGinnis
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On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 08:50, Robert J. Hansen <rjh at sixdemonbag.org> wrote:

>> I guess that’s one way to look at it, but if your end users are
>> dissidents and journalists communicating in happy fun places or
>> developers signing critical software, then surely you’d want the
>> product to be resilient against 10 year old trivial attacks from your
>> users’ adversaries.
>
> I feel like I am screaming into the void here. I'm going to be quite
> blunt because the message is just not getting through:
>
> I don't get to decide these things. Stop implying that I do. Stop
> blaming me for other people's decisions. And stop thinking that I have
> *anything whatsoever to do with the keyservers*. I don't. I understand
> them but I am not a developer on them. I don't even run a keyserver.
> And if you knew the first thing about the keyservers you would know this
> without needing me to tell you.
>
> So please forgive me for not wanting to have a conversation with you. I
> am getting very tired of people confusing "Rob understands the current
> mess" with "so I'm going to impugn his competence".
>
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