Re: [Sks-devel] The pool is shrinking

[Hendrik Visage]

> On 16 Aug 2019, at 18:01 , Andrew Gallagher <address@hidden> wrote:
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> 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...

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