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Keyserver Draft
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To: [email protected]
Date: Wed Jan 08 08:39:12 1997
Having gotten the subject in the spotlight (!), I'd like to clarify a couple
of points about my draft proposal:
1: it is aimed at supporting _automatic_ realtime - as in supporting
crypto-aware email packages, so that if an unknown key turns up, the
encryption program can go out and collect key data _without_ user
intervention.
2: port "assignment" was arbitrary; if the protocol would work better with a
single port for send/receive, then "make it so, Number One" :-)
3: I expected that data transfer would work best using ascii text (like
ascii-fied keys); if something else would work better, so be it.
4: if checksums or other error-detection/correction isn't necessary, then by
all means, leave it/them out.
I offered the draft as a _proposal_, fully expecting that it would require
modification, editing, revision, et al. I'm not sufficiently
pompous/egotistical to believe that I am He Who Knows All.
Too, I have a reasonable idea of my own limitations; I'm simply trying to
establish *some* kind of common reference point toward a solution of
something I see as a possible problem. Happily, I haven't received any
_personal_ flames, the comments I've received have been
professional/technical. If I get a brownie point or atta-boy out of this,
cool. If not, that's fine, too, _as long as the problem is addressed_.
I didn't dare propose anything so grand as a distributed system - it seemed
that a variation of DNS would handle that.
We return you now to FlameFest '97 :-)
Dave Merriman
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