On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:24:21AM -0800, Len Sassaman wrote:
I do not think the web of trust would be significantly altered if V3 keys
were depricated. (I'd like to see Drew Streib's key analysis run with the
v3 keys excluded to test this theory). More important to the users is
individual trust changes. Perhaps this could be addressed by stating that
key certifications "MAY" but "SHOULD NOT" be v3 format (and reference RFC
1991)? (Am I correct in assuming that v3 as described in OpenPGP is
identical to v3 in 1991?)
I'd also be happy just cutting the v3 web loose.
A v4-only analysis, otherwise using the same data as the full analysis
for the same date, is at:
http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/ka/2003-03-09-v4only/
Summary: strong and reachable set sizes are reduced by about 50%.
Of 1,829,065 keys, 1,662,070 are v4, ~91%.
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