Keys size (was: [Sks-devel] APG)

2010-07-03 Thread Kim Minh Kaplan
Jeff Johnson writes: > 1) no means to filter pubkeys. Some pubkeys are getting quite > large, approaching 100's of Kb. Last year I did some investigations on keys size in the SKS network and was surprised to find some multimegabytes keys. I only looked at the largest and it was because of a hug

Re: [Sks-devel] APG

2010-07-01 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:43 AM, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: > For the time being, I think it would be wisest to stick with an hkp:// > capable client library in C. This may mean libwww and http 1.0. I > don't want to get into an overhaul of sks just to make an android app > function correctly ;) >

Re: [Sks-devel] APG

2010-07-01 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
For the time being, I think it would be wisest to stick with an hkp:// capable client library in C. This may mean libwww and http 1.0. I don't want to get into an overhaul of sks just to make an android app function correctly ;) As the app matures, it may make sense to extend sks to meet the dem

Re: [Sks-devel] APG

2010-07-01 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:10 AM, David Shaw wrote: >> >> Both of the above issues could be addressed by extending >> the hkp:// query syntax a bit to include more sophisticated >> queries. > > I've often thought of SKS as really two distinct pieces: the SKS gossip > protocol and database for key s

Re: [Sks-devel] APG

2010-07-01 Thread David Shaw
On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:55 PM, John Clizbe wrote: >> >> as well as http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-shaw-openpgp-hkp/ >> > > > Which reminds me ... > > There are _LOTS_ of advantages to hkp:// lookup through > SKS keyserers: easy to im

Re: [Sks-devel] APG

2010-07-01 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:55 PM, John Clizbe wrote: > > as well as http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-shaw-openpgp-hkp/ > Which reminds me ... There are _LOTS_ of advantages to hkp:// lookup through SKS keyserers: easy to implement, reliable and portable, latency measured in minutes, all asto

Re: [Sks-devel] APG

2010-07-01 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 19:33 -0700, Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2010-07-01 at 17:53 -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: > > I'd like to start the work required to add keyserver support to APG: > > > > http://code.google.com/p/android-privacy-guard/source/checkout > > > > Can someone recommend a C librar

Re: [Sks-devel] APG

2010-07-01 Thread John Clizbe
Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2010-07-01 at 17:53 -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: >> I'd like to start the work required to add keyserver support to APG: >> >> http://code.google.com/p/android-privacy-guard/source/checkout >> >> Can someone recommend a C library that can talk to sks? > > Is this for

Re: [Sks-devel] APG

2010-07-01 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2010-07-01 at 19:33 -0700, Phil Pennock wrote: > It's a simple HTTP call, but to a non-standard port. It's the > /pks/lookup stuff which you'll see any of the web-forms using. Your > search-term should be "PKS". Brain-fart, I meant HKP, sorry. > GnuPG is probably as good a source as any. >

Re: [Sks-devel] APG

2010-07-01 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2010-07-01 at 17:53 -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: > I'd like to start the work required to add keyserver support to APG: > > http://code.google.com/p/android-privacy-guard/source/checkout > > Can someone recommend a C library that can talk to sks? Is this for transliteration to Java? Sinc

[Sks-devel] APG

2010-07-01 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
Hey folks, I'd like to start the work required to add keyserver support to APG: http://code.google.com/p/android-privacy-guard/source/checkout Can someone recommend a C library that can talk to sks? Cheers, C.J. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part