On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
requirements for a keyserer are. I asked Randy Harmon, the administrator for certserver.pgp.com, to see if he could answer that question for me. His response is below.
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If we assume 10 times the volume as today (1.1 million keys on the server), and 10 servers to balance the search load, then the bandwidth for each server would be roughly:
Searches: 160 MB Adds/Mods: 28 MB Replications: 28 MB outgoing 280 MB incoming ============= 496 MB/day 15 GB/month
Multiply by 10 for 100,000,000 keys.
Randy
OK. So if we take 15GB/mo, it's aproximately 45Kb/s of bandwidth. Even at 3rd Tier pricing, I don't know anyone who uses PGP who wouldn't be willing to donate $45/mo to the cause. If someone wants to donate the hardware, we'll gladly host a keyserver. --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc