[messaging] SKS gossip protocol mentor?

[Daniel Roesler]

Howdy,

SKS keyservers (the main pool used for GPG keys) uses a reconciliation
protocol to gossip new keys among the pool of keyservers[1]. I've read
through the academic paper[2][3] several times, but I'm having a
difficult time going from the math to the code in the actual
sks-keyserver (written in OCaml).

I've asked the same question on the sks-devel mailing list[4], but did
not receive a reply. Is anyone who knows the actual implementation
details and mechanics of the gossip protocol willing to be a mentor as
I learn it?

I'd like to just have someone I can ping with questions as I work
through the code. My goal is to be able to write an independent
implementation that can coexist in the sks pool.

Thanks,
Daniel

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/wiki/Home
[2]: http://ipsit.bu.edu/documents/ieee-it3-web.pdf
[3]: http://ipsit.bu.edu/documents/BUTR2002-01.ps
[4]: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/sks-devel/2016-08/msg00072.html