February 12, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
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Web-based keyservers
1.Slap a web-based front-end on top of the keyserver to allow real-time lookups.
2.Watch web server performance slow to a crawl because PGP’s key management routines were O(n^2)!
3.Re-implement the keyserver on top of a real database engine
4.Standardize the protocol to allow automated queries from other programs