PGP 3.0/4.0

[David Lesher]

> 
> >the last time I put together a 6,000 key ring on a 386 it took three
> >days & several Mb.
> 
> The MIT PGP keyserver now has new non-PGP based code to manage it's
> keyring of 20,000+ keys. Not sure if you can get the code, or how easy
> it'd be to adapt to a deployed usage, but presumably it's much more
> efficient.

How about code that goes out & fetches keys upon demand, al-la DNS?

[1st pass thinking is there are too many holes in such a method, even
if MIT's server could handle the real-time load...]



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