OCaml where I didn't expect it

[XVilka]

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SKS key servers problem

Today the SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack gist made to a Hacker News first page. And the plot twist - it is implemented in OCaml. Ridiculously the author of that gist blames the language: The software is Byzantine. The standard keyserver software is called SKS, for “Synchronizing Key Server”. A bright fellow named Yaron Minsky devised a brilliant algorithm that could do reconciliations very quickly. It became the keystone of his Ph.D thesis, and he wrote SKS originally as a proof of concept…