2008/10/22 Michael Kesper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well, keys cannot be identified by the 8 chars alone. > I've once been to a key-signing-party with about 150 people and guess > what: There were collisions with other existing keys if you only would have > looked at the last 8 chars of the fingerprint. >
That was quite unlucky, because there should be approximately 77000 people gathered together to get a probability of 50% of a collision, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack. :-) -- Jens Peter Secher. _DD6A 05B0 174E BFB2 D4D9 B52E 0EE5 978A FE63 E8A1 jpsecher gmail com_. A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion. Q. Why is top posting bad? _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
