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Key Analysis 19 Mar 2002
The following stats are being pulled from a keyring that was exported from pgp.dtype.org on March 12, 2002. Before reading this, please be sure to view the explanation of this analysis and read the FAQ before asking me any questions about it.
The strong set MSD raw analysis is available here. Please read the FAQ to explain how to read this file. This file includes all keys reachable from the strong set. Look up reports for individual keys in the raw output directory. Here you can also see what keys are signed by each key (otherwise very difficult to find).
New This Month
Basically, the generation of the html version of this report after a few months neglect is new. I'm woking on more automoation of this now, and will package up the new scripts and release them with next month's report.
I've also added a top 1000 listing, linked from this report.
General statistics
| Size of binary keyring (bytes): | 1,926,904,924 | |
| Number of keys: | 1,634,119 | |
| Non-revoked keys with at least one non-self sig: | 156,682 | |
| Total non-self sigs on those keys: | 327,887 |
The "strong set"
| Size of largest strongly connected set: | 11,997 | |
| Keys that this set has signed (target of MSD calculations): | 44,372 |
Best connected keys (shortest distance to)
Please read about the mean shortest distance (MSD) calculated here in the analysis explanation. Here are the top 50 keys. Look for your own key in this month's raw analysis (see above). Note that the only keys analyzed were those reachable from the strong set. I've included some of my own comments on people I recognize. I'm sorry if you're listed here without a comment. If you email me a quick phrase to describe what you do that would be of interest to readers, I'll put it in.
The average MSD is 6.6397, in the set of 44,372. The median value is 6.2549.
Go to this keyserver's web interface to look up these keys.
There is also a top 1000 report.
| Rank | Hex ID (last 32b) | Key Name (Identifier) | Comments | MSD |
| 1 | 466B4289 | Theodore Ts'o [SIGNATURE] | ext2fstools, Kerberos, LSB, IETF, other | 4.0721 |
| 2 | 09590CFD | Peter N. Wan | GA Tech College of computing | 4.0783 |
| 3 | 4F570BA3 | Ingmar Camphausen | PGP security maverick | 4.0910 |
| 4 | F081195D | Matthias Bauer | 4.0949 | |
| 5 | F95C2F6D | Christoph Martin | Debian maintainer & uni-mainz keyserver admin | 4.1043 |
| 6 | F1A37611 | Theodore Y. Ts'o [ENCRYPTION] | 4.1394 | |
| 7 | 8B4608A1 | Peter N. Wan PNW2048 | GA Tech College of computing | 4.1732 |
| 8 | 5B0358A2 | Werner Koch | author of GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) | 4.1811 |
| 9 | 09AC0A6A | L. Sassaman | cypherpunks | 4.2302 |
| 10 | 7DFF8533 | peter honeyman | 4.2470 | |
| 11 | C2009841 | Niels Provos | OpenBSD, OpenSSH, IPSEC | 4.2679 |
| 12 | 0A2F87E5 | Niels Provos (#2) | OpenBSD, OpenSSH, IPSEC | 4.2765 |
| 13 | 0679ED91 | teun.nijssen@kub.nl | manages SURFnet servers, scanned PGP source code | 4.2801 |
| 14 | 13D9873D | Mirko Dziadzka | 4.3047 | |
| 15 | DD934139 | Patrick Feisthammel | hosts Swiss PGP keyserver, www.ch.pgp.net | 4.3135 |
| 16 | 1CF27FD5 | Marc Horowitz | author of pks PGP keyserver software | 4.3137 |
| 17 | 09D3E64D | Greg Rose | USENIX, PGPMoose | 4.3151 |
| 18 | 75BE8097 | Florian Lohoff | 4.3238 | |
| 19 | DC4ED62D | Ingmar Camphausen, DFN-PCA | PGP security maverick | 4.3254 |
| 20 | 46F3212D | LaMont Jones | Debian developer, postfix junkie | 4.3344 |
| 21 | C1B06AF1 | Derek Atkins | 4.3382 | |
| 22 | 08C95A15 | SURFnet-Master-Certification-Key | 4.3393 | |
| 23 | 52D1CAB1 | Nathalie Weiler | security researcher at ETH Zurich | 4.3433 |
| 24 | 66A74B31 | Teun Nijssen | manages SURFnet servers, scanned PGP source code | 4.3485 |
| 25 | 80B07A4F | Theodore Ts'o | ext2fstools, Kerberos, LSB, IETF, other | 4.3504 |
| 26 | 8531327F | Martin Spill | 4.3533 | |
| 27 | 0DBF906D | Jeffrey I. Schiller | MIT security/network manager | 4.3611 |
| 28 | C158CCED | Florian Lohoff | 4.3646 | |
| 29 | 6916C873 | Peter N. Wan PNWGTDH4096 | GA Tech College of computing | 4.3682 |
| 30 | C7A966DD | Philip R. Zimmermann | inventor of PGP | 4.3784 |
| 31 | A094DA25 | Patrick Feisthammel CERTIFICATION ONLY, Key A | 4.3827 | |
| 32 | DB41B387 | Bradley M. Kuhn (bkuhn99) | Free Software Foundation VP | 4.3833 |
| 33 | 94C09C7F | Peter Palfrader | 4.3897 | |
| 34 | 603F2D01 | Stefan Kelm | 4.3998 | |
| 35 | 00292B81 | Nathalie Weiler | security researcher at ETH Zurich | 4.4045 |
| 36 | A9FA17FF | Roland Bauerschmidt | 4.4124 | |
| 37 | CAAED99D | Axel Grossklaus | 4.4164 | |
| 38 | E39AF3E9 | Chelo Malagon | 4.4192 | |
| 39 | 103D4013 | Theodore Ts'o | ext2fstools, Kerberos, LSB, IETF, other | 4.4254 |
| 40 | 2FA3BC2D | Wichert Akkerman | 4.4342 | |
| 41 | FE0B386D | Pasztor, Miklos | 4.4380 | |
| 42 | E12469C1 | Ruediger Weis | 4.4439 | |
| 43 | DA0EDC81 | Phil Karn | 4.4498 | |
| 44 | FAEBD5FC | Philip R. Zimmermann | 4.4521 | |
| 45 | F086CBB5 | Marcel Waldvogel | 4.4626 | |
| 46 | ED9547ED | Wichert Akkerman | Debian Project Leader emeritus, dpkg | 4.4656 |
| 47 | 1FE961A1 | Harald Koenig | 4.4705 | |
| 48 | 2B48F6F5 | Ian Goldberg | ISAAC, crypto guru | 4.4756 |
| 49 | 93674C40 | Theodore Y. Ts'o | 4.4780 | |
| 50 | 34628F83 | SURFnet-PCA-Medium-Security-Certification-Key | 4.4802 |
There is also a top 1000 report.
For next month
I'm working on a lot more automation of this report, which I should have done a long time ago.
Discussion about this analysis continues on the keyanalyze-discuss mailing list.
If you have any suggestions, please send them my way, especially if you have the algorithms as well. If you're so inclined, please have a look at the code as well.
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