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

Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> Fri, 03 March 2017 19:29 UTC

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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.


Kurt