On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:49:11PM -0300, Faramir wrote: > David Newman escribi??: > >> I was thinking... in case I want to put my key ID in a business card, > >> what format should I use? Short format (8 characters) or long format > > > I would use the entire fingerprint in the same format as reported > > by --fingerprint (10 groups of 4 hex chars). The key ID is last > > 8 characters of the fingerprint. At one point I even had a rubber > > I never noticed that before (the fact KeyID is the last 8 or 16 > characters of the fingerprint). > > David Shaw escribi??: > > > Personally, I'd put the whole fingerprint on there (and in fact, that > > it what I do). It's not terribly long, and it is the most-specific > > way to specify a particular key in OpenPGP. > > Well, it is not terrible long if it is used to check a key already > found, but to type it to do a search... I think maybe it can be a bit > "scary" for new users... maybe I should put the KeyID short format, and > in smaller text, the whole fingerprint...
That is the best of all worlds. I have both on my business cards. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
