Re: [Sks-devel] Blacklisting on UID?

2018-08-29 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> On 29 Aug 2018, at 17:52, Thorsten Bro | openSUSE Heroes > wrote: > > Are there any plans for blacklisting or filtering specific GPG UIDs by > pattern in the sks server or database? I think filtering out UIDs by bad-pattern is a fool’s errand. Anyone can put anything they want in the real n

Re: [Sks-devel] Blacklisting on UID?

2018-08-29 Thread Hendrik Visage
Hi Thorsten, I believe the problem have been highlighted that the SKS keyservers are a very easily abused infrastructure with things like the photos etc. not to mention big keys that caused other denial of service type attacks on the server infrastructure. The question perhaps, is: How criti

[Sks-devel] Blacklisting on UID?

2018-08-29 Thread Thorsten Bro | openSUSE Heroes
Hi all, I read this just yesterday and checked it on our instance - and unfortunately - I found a lot of magnet URIs on our keyserver. https://medium.com/@mdrahony/sks-keyservers-being-used-as-piracy-sites-59ce5144101f This might be a copyright problem for organizations and companies running SKS