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Subject:    [Pgp-keyserver-folk] Re: Mail synchronization
From:       "Yaron M. Minsky" <yminsky () cs ! cornell ! edu>
Date:       2002-10-17 13:52:28
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Thanks all.  I now have plenty of examples.

y

> I'm looking for examples of the synchronization messages sent by other
> keyservers.  I was hoping a few people would volunteer to email me a
> few  examples, so I could have something to test with.
>
> If you could, please forward some synchronization emails to
> yminsky@cs.cornell.edu.
>
> Thanks,
> y
>
> Yaron M. Minsky wrote:
>> I've got a question about synchronizing with the rest of the PGP
>> keyserver world.  Right now, SKS lives in a world of its own, only
>> accepting keys directly submitted to an SKS server.  I'd like to hook
>> into the general PGP synchronization system.  Looking at the CKS code,
>> it looks to me like all I need to do for basic synchronization is to
>> take mail messages I receive and add the keys contained in their body
>> into the keyserver.  Is there anything else that's needed, or is that
>> really it?  I know the mail-sync protocol is a bit more complicated
>> than that (for instance, it keeps track of who has seen a message in
>> order to avoid loops).  But as far as I can tell I don't need to think
>> about that if I don't want to forward keys on.
>
>
>> If that's all it takes, it seems like one could write a simple script
>> to convert incoming email into the appropriate http-request, and that
>> would do it.
>
>
>> y
>>


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