Hello Daniel.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: > The Key ID is a substring (either the last 8 or 16 hex chars) of the Key > Fingerprint (which is 40 hex chars). The Key ID is used nowhere in the > internals of the OpenPGP specification, from what i can tell. I think I've messed up the terms fingerprint and key ID, sorry :-( > The fingerprint itself is used only in the designated revocation key > [0], which is an acknowledged weakness of the cryptosystem [1]. It's > not used anywhere else that i can tell. Ok,.. I'm confused now. David said,.. the community would probably have to create a new key type or version at some point. But this sounds more, that if I simply don't use designated revocation keys,... I don't use SHA1 at all,.. and would be fine to simply swtich to another algorithm. Regards, Philippe. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
