The November Keyanalyze results are in:
[james@MinistryOfInformation]$curl http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/ka/2003-11-30/msd-sorted.txt.bz2
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr.
Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed
100 897k 100 897k 0 0 156k 0 0:00:05 0:00:05 0:00:00 192k
[james@MinistryOfInformation]$bzcat msd-sorted.txt.bz2 | grep 65FDCDEE
1484 EC993D63 65FDCDEE 4.7344
My GPG key is the 1484th most trusted key. Weirdly the overall MSD went north this month. This is probably because of the bug discovered in El Gamal keys which caused around 800 keys to be revoked. Including Reid’s. But we’ll have him back soon enough.
Posted by james at December 1, 2003 10:18 PM | TrackBackThe reports of my key being revoked are greatly exaggerated. If I even spelled that rightly.
Only primary sign + encrypt keys were affected. My elgamal key is an encrypt-only subkey, which Werner was kind enough to point out is not affected in his second mailing. Also, even if it were, it’s only a subkey. My primary key is DSA, and that’s the one with all the sigs attached.
Anyway, I don’t think we’ve actually signed each other’s keys, James. We should get to that soon…
Oh yeah, I almost forgot:
krw@galileo:~$ bzcat msd-sorted.txt.bz2 | grep 02D77DD6
638 2512E19A 02D77DD6 4.4909
Still not king. Maybe some day.
Actually, I figured out how to win. Make a bunch of idiot keys that only you sign. Then everyone else’s MSD increases (they have to go through you to get to the dummy keys), while your MSD decreases (lots and lots of keys only one hop away). If you wanted to be a real ass, you could write a perl script that just generated keys, signed them, uploaded, and then zapped. You’d be number one in no time (though the world would you hate you for it).
My nerd cred is seriously going down hill:
voyager: ~
$ bzcat msd-sorted.txt.bz2 | grep 2E15B859
22565 56DFB677 2E15B859 5.3611
Well, I might make some ground at http://lca2004.linux.org.au/keysigning/ when I go to Adelaide in January.