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Re: [Trans] Experiment report: The MMD is a lie

Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> Fri, 03 March 2017 20:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Trans] Experiment report: The MMD is a lie
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On 03/03/17 19:29, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 06:58:49PM -0500, Richard Barnes wrote:
>> The upshot is that this style of logging seems eminently feasible.  Almost
>> all CT logs are growing at well less than 10qps [2], and even Let's Encrypt
>> on its worst days only generates about 115qps.  And I have pretty high
>> confidence that if you actually put some thought into designing the storage
>> scheme, you could get some additional margin here.
>
> Let's encrypt seems to be doing around 1M per day on "its worst
> days", which is still only in the range of 10 per second.

That assumes an even distribution throughout the day, which isn't the 
reality.

A couple of days ago, Google's Pilot log generated 582 SCTs during a 
single second (2017-03-01 14:01:07 UTC).

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Rob Stradling
Senior Research & Development Scientist
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