Re: [Sks-devel] exchange of ideas

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, fuat wrote:

> A text file, html file, and .asc file are not dangerous to the server.
>
> The attacker cannot harm the server with the text file. can only read.
> but sks database is very often corrupted. If there is an error in
> writing a file, only that file is corrupted.

if a single file gets corrupted, you won't notice. If the DB is corrupted, 
you'll notice soon. A single file is more easily compromised.

> The content of a text file from the internet is quick to reach.

Yes, if you have a straight forward access mechanism, e.g. getting by hash 
or an exact match lookup. You can surf many many static files easily - 
semiparallel. But what about (fuzzy) search? You'll need some sort of 
search index to answer in a reasonable time. The same key can be addressed 
by different lookup queries, too.

> The database occupies only 20 percent less disk space and the search is
> slightly faster than 20 percent.

I'll doubt that non-exact search is only 20% faster than handling plain 
text files.

> however, instead of remaining dependent on a single system for such a
> difference, it would be more flexible and diverse to work with
> different programs that achieve the same results and do the same.

Yes. In fact, you could do so now by using SKS for reconcil only, dump the 
keys in any fashion and use yet another search and delivery program.

If you increase logging, you'll get Adding Del'ing lines. I assume these 
include update events, too.

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Steffen Kaiser
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