On: SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

[ethbro]

I believe an apt analogy might be "the lack of a neurosurgery clinic is not a reason to avoid building a health clinic."

[kasey_junk → ethbro]

Health clinics rarely trumpet themselves as solutions to brain injuries they clearly aren’t capable of working on.

[ethbro → kasey_junk]

And yet, if I am suffering from a brain injury and no one in the last 30 years has seen fit to build anything other than a health clinic in my town, I'm probably pretty happy there's a nurse practitioner available.

Let's not make the perfect the enemy of the good.

And with all respect to the professionals in the field, casting operational stones at a technically valid solution seems... myopic.

[kasey_junk → ethbro]

The professionals are trying very hard to tell you it’s not a technically valid solution. The math on public key encryption is not the issue, it’s operationalizing it. Openpgp is a disaster there.

Note I’m not a professional in this field but I occasionally drink with them.

[ethbro → kasey_junk]

In what way is this not a solvable problem?

From the article, the only issues seem to be (1) poor SDLC practices leading to toxic, frozen code, (2) the difficulty in performing protocol / standard upgrades on a decentralized network.