PKI Test Data available: 5,000,000 RSA keys/CSRs/certs

Thor Lancelot Simon tls at rek.tjls.com
Fri Apr 11 01:19:33 EDT 2003


[Moderator's note: for those that need it, this is a very valuable set
of test data for PKI systems. --Perry]

Current requirements for deployment of software or hardware into
certain environments using X.509 certificates for authentication
(e.g. sale of certain types of cryptographic products to the U.S. DoD)
present a rather high bar for handling of certain PKI operations, e.g.
operations involving Certificate Revocation Lists, which may number
in the dozens and include hundreds of thousands of entries per list at
any time.

My employer (ReefEdge, Inc.) was recently faced with the need to test 
one of our products to said requirements.  We quickly realized that 
there was no suitable collection of test data, and that producing one 
would require a significant amount of computational effort and storage
space.  The Computer Science Department at the Stevens Institute of
Technology was kind enough to lend us the use of a cluster of 60
Pentium-IIIs running NetBSD, with about 1TB of disk available for
our use.

We are now making the data available for general use.  We request
that if you use this data to develop or test your product, you consider:

1) Making a donation, even a small one, to Stevens Tech, designated
   for the Computer Science Department.  You can arrange to make such
   a gift by calling the Office of Development and External Affairs
   at Stevens Tech at +1 201 216 5225.

   You could spend tens of thousands of dollars and months, weeks,
   or at least days (if you happen to have dozens of fast CPUs and
   a lot of storage handy) to generate this data yourself, so you 
   can sell your products into markets worth tens or hundreds of
   millions of dollars.  Or you could just use the data we're making 
   available out of the goodness of our hearts.  Wouldn't it make sense 
   to give us a little something to encourage us to continue to do so?  
   It's tax-deductable.

2) Giving credit to the Stevens Tech Computer Science Department
   in the documentation, advertising, or accompanying materials for
   your product, for example:  "This product was tested using PKI-Test
   version 1.0.0 from the Stevens Institute of Technology Department
   of Computer Science."

If you use this data in your research, we request that that you give us 
appropriate credit.  As mentioned above, the name of the current package 
is "PKI-Test Version 1.0.0", and it is available to you courtesy of the 
CS Department at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

PKI-Test version 1.0.0 is available from ftp.cs.stevens-tech.edu in
the directory /pub/PKI-Test.  The file "README" in that directory
gives the layout of the information.  Please don't just try to download
the tarfiles of all of the data that are in the top level of the
"tarfiles" subdirectory; they are over 10GB in total size and will
probably make your machine eat its filesystem if you try to extract
them anyhow; they contain thousands of directories and over 15,000,000
individual files.  See the README; other subdirectories contain all
the same data neatly packaged up for you in sets of 1000 files each.

Enjoy!

Thor

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