# OCaml where I didn't expect it

**URL:** <https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-where-i-didnt-expect-it/4029>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [July 3, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-where-i-didnt-expect-it/4029 "2019-07-03T17:41:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![XVilka](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ocaml.org/xvilka/32/5334_2.png) [@XVilka](https://discuss.ocaml.org/u/XVilka)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-where-i-didnt-expect-it/4029/2 "2019-07-04T06:52:42Z")

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There was already a post about this here:

> [@SKS key servers problem](https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/sks-key-servers-problem/4003):
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> Today the [SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack](https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f) 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…

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