Hi, * Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-26 15:05:51 +0100]: > 2008/10/22 Michael Kesper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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. :-)
I double-checked. There were no collisions among the participating people but some of the participating keys short IDs collided with other existing short IDs. So, to be sure, always use 16 digits. Best wishes Michael -- Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) [] (http://fsfeurope.org) Treten Sie der Fellowship bei! [][][] (http://fsfe.org/join) Ihre Spende ermöglicht unsere Arbeit! || (http://fsfeurope.org/donate)
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