On Dec 13, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Avoiding a systemic change to the certificate format seems like it would > be a Good Thing in that people could participate in a global smooth > transition, without requiring a hard cut-over or a global interruption > of existing networks of identity verification.
Why is it that using the method you advocate, there is a graceful changeover between fingerprint formats, but a change in the certificate format requires a "hard cut-over" with "global interruption of existing networks..." ? That's a straw man. Who is advocating a hard cut over or any interruption whatsoever? Personally, I suspect a changeover would take somewhere between 5 and 10 years, just as the v3->v4 changeover did. It is premature to try and force a particular format into the design before we even have a SHA-3 to talk about. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
