17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com> writes:
More seriously, the problem that Perry brought up is that it's hard to deploy any kind of scaleable key distribution infrastructure that works with PGP (as it currently exists - and yes, I realize there are work-arounds for some specific situations).
Could you have a distributed database where you lookup by key ID and get a key? Or is there a constraint that the key distribution infrastructure has to be part of the DNS? I could see a set of key servers where one deals with all keys that start with 0x00, the next has all keys which start with 0x01, etc. This makes it easy to know which server to go to in order to look up a given key ID. Hal