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Key Analysis 11 Apr 2002
The following stats are being pulled from a keyring that was exported from pgp.dtype.org on April 10, 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).
General statistics
| Size of binary keyring (bytes): | 1,945,876,437 | (+0.97%) | |
| Number of keys: | 1,649,308 | (+0.92%) | |
| Non-revoked keys with at least one non-self sig: | 158,707 | (+1.27%) | |
| Total non-self sigs on those keys: | 332,894 | (+1.50%) |
The "strong set"
| Size of largest strongly connected set: | 12,285 | (+2.34%) | |
| Keys that this set has signed (target of MSD calculations): | 44,898 | (+1.17%) |
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 6.5809, in the set of 44,898. The median value is 6.2544.
Go to this keyserver's web interface to look up these keys.
| Rank | Hex ID (last 32b) | Key Name (Identifier) | Comments | MSD |
| 1 | 09590CFD | Peter Wan | GA Tech College of computing | 4.0782 |
| 2 | 466B4289 | Theodore Ts'o [SIGNATURE] | ext2fstools, Kerberos, LSB, IETF, other | 4.0783 |
| 3 | 4F570BA3 | Ingmar Camphausen | PGP security maverick | 4.0928 |
| 4 | F95C2F6D | Christoph Martin | Debian maintainer & uni-mainz keyserver admin | 4.0981 |
| 5 | F081195D | Matthias Bauer | 4.0982 | |
| 6 | 5B0358A2 | Werner Koch | author of GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) | 4.1434 |
| 7 | F1A37611 | Theodore Y. Ts'o [ENCRYPTION] | 4.1551 | |
| 8 | 8B4608A1 | Peter N. Wan PNW2048 | GA Tech College of computing | 4.1674 |
| 9 | 09AC0A6A | Leonard Harris Sassaman | cypherpunks | 4.2331 |
| 10 | 13D9873D | Mirko Dziadzka | co-author, Linux Kernel Internals | 4.2435 |
| 11 | 7DFF8533 | peter honeyman | USENIX, Linux NFSv4, uucp | 4.2540 |
| 12 | 0679ED91 | teun.nijssen@kub.nl | manages SURFnet servers, scanned PGP source code | 4.2741 |
| 13 | C2009841 | Niels Provos | OpenBSD, OpenSSH, IPSEC | 4.2781 |
| 14 | 0A2F87E5 | Niels Provos (#2) | OpenBSD, OpenSSH, IPSEC | 4.2864 |
| 15 | 1CF27FD5 | Marc Horowitz | author of pks PGP keyserver software | 4.3006 |
| 16 | 75BE8097 | Florian Lohoff | 4.3072 | |
| 17 | DD934139 | Patrick Feisthammel | hosts Swiss PGP keyserver, www.ch.pgp.net | 4.3128 |
| 18 | 80B07A4F | Theodore Ts'o | ext2fstools, Kerberos, LSB, IETF, other | 4.3239 |
| 19 | DC4ED62D | Ingmar Camphausen, DFN-PCA | PGP security maverick | 4.3249 |
| 20 | 09D3E64D | Greg Rose | USENIX, PGPMoose | 4.3300 |
| 21 | 66A74B31 | Teun Nijssen | manages SURFnet servers, scanned PGP source code | 4.3319 |
| 22 | 08C95A15 | SURFnet-Master-Certification-Key | 4.3335 | |
| 23 | 46F3212D | LaMont Jones | Debian developer, postfix junkie | 4.3416 |
| 24 | 52D1CAB1 | Nathalie Weiler | security researcher at ETH Zurich | 4.3428 |
| 25 | C158CCED | Florian Lohoff | 4.3447 | |
| 26 | C1B06AF1 | Derek Atkins | 4.3509 | |
| 27 | 8531327F | Martin Spill | 4.3535 | |
| 28 | 6916C873 | Peter N. Wan PNWGTDH4096 | GA Tech College of computing | 4.3580 |
| 29 | DB41B387 | Bradley M. Kuhn (bkuhn99) | Free Software Foundation VP | 4.3726 |
| 30 | 0DBF906D | Jeffrey I. Schiller | MIT security/network manager | 4.3775 |
| 31 | 94C09C7F | Peter Palfrader | debian trust analysis | 4.3788 |
| 32 | A094DA25 | Patrick Feisthammel CERTIFICATION ONLY, Key A | 4.3827 | |
| 33 | C7A966DD | Philip R. Zimmermann | inventor of PGP | 4.3941 |
| 34 | E39AF3E9 | Chelo Malagon | 4.3989 | |
| 35 | 00292B81 | Nathalie Weiler | security researcher at ETH Zurich | 4.4037 |
| 36 | A9FA17FF | Roland Bauerschmidt | Debian maintainer | 4.4062 |
| 37 | 603F2D01 | Stefan Kelm | PKI page, pki-page.org | 4.4076 |
| 38 | 66FBC18C | M. Drew Streib | keyanalyze report, free software law, freedb, other | 4.4096 |
| 39 | FE0B386D | Pasztor, Miklos | 4.4199 | |
| 40 | 103D4013 | Theodore Ts'o | ext2fstools, Kerberos, LSB, IETF, other | 4.4271 |
| 41 | CAAED99D | Axel Grossklaus | 4.4283 | |
| 42 | 2FA3BC2D | Wichert Akkerman | Debian Project Leader emeritus, dpkg | 4.4330 |
| 43 | F086CBB5 | Marcel Waldvogel | 4.4411 | |
| 44 | FAEBD5FC | Philip R. Zimmermann | inventor of PGP | 4.4469 |
| 45 | E12469C1 | Ruediger Weis | 4.4514 | |
| 46 | BDBFE838 | Marc Mutz | KMail developer | 4.4595 |
| 47 | 34628F83 | SURFnet-PCA-Medium-Security-Certification-Key | 4.4597 | |
| 48 | F3A4BC95 | Jeffrey V. Cook | 4.4647 | |
| 49 | ED9547ED | Wichert Akkerman | Debian Project Leader emeritus, dpkg | 4.4654 |
| 50 | D3A42C61 | Francisco Jesus Monserrat Coll | 4.4658 |
For next month
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