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John Clizbe <JPClizbe@tx.rr.com> Wed, 08 May 2013 12:25 UTC

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Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Thanks for these details, John.  This is exactly the sort of thing that
> i wanted to start getting fleshed out.
> 
> On 05/08/2013 12:02 AM, John Clizbe wrote:
>> Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>>> 0) "I have no key material matching this name/keyid at all"
>> 
>>> 1) "I have too many keys that match this search to bother you with an 
>>> insanely long list"
>> 
>> You /must/ mean documenting how those two are already implemented?
> 
> well, this is how they're implemented in SKS, which is the defacto
> reference implementation, for sure.  so yes, documenting this in the
> only public spec of the HKP protocol would be good.

Casey Marshall is well along in his implementation, Hockeypuck, which if I
understood correctly, is implementing HKP with the behavior of SKS. He is
implementing the reconciliation process of SKS as well. He has implemented
them in Go.

>> X-HKP-Results-Count: number of matching keys
> 
> This header (i think you're implying that it is an HTTP response header)
> doesn't seem to be used at all in GnuPG if i'm searching
> git://git.gnupg.org/gnupg.git properly.
> 
> I know there are other HKP client implementations but (like sks on the
> server side) gnupg is a sort of defacto reference implementation.  If
> it's not making use of this header, then it probably needs to be better
> documented and patches pushed to gpg.

Yes, it's a HTTP header, returned since 1.1.2. See this thread for more
details about why it exists: [Sks-devel] SKS, Content-Length and HEAD requests
[https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/sks-devel/2010-11/threads.html#00000 ]

This may be getting a bit SKS-centric for the OpenPGP list.
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