On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Werner Koch <w...@gnupg.org> wrote:
> On Fri,  1 May 2009 05:58, a...@smasher.org said:
>
>> so... when is the open-pgp spec moving beyond SHA1 hashes to identify
>> public keys? what's next? will it have to be a bigger hash?
>
> OpenPGP does not claim that the fingerprint is a unique way to identify
> a key.

How does GPG cope if two keys on the keyring have the same FP?  AFAICS
that would make things very difficult for most of the front-ends,
especially if they had been relying on the uniqueness (in practice) of
the FP to specify which key to operate on.

N.

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