> Why is it more resource intensive? It's far more intensive of a much more limited resource: user happiness. Normal users tend to find hexadecimal frustrating:
"It's a *number*? But it uses A through F." "I don't understand. Why do I need the long ID?" "Wait, now I need to use the *entire* fingerprint?" "You can't be serious: I need to give a 40-character serial number whenever I need to identify a key?" "What do you *mean*, future keys will be expanding to 64 characters?!" ... In all this discussion about what's mathematically optimal, I'm dejected to see how little we're talking about human factors. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
