On 26/02/16 15:29, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > "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.
:-) The fundamental problem here is that computers have become so powerful that they can generate more data objects than human beings can ever give distinct names(*) to. Hell, we can't even give *ourselves* unique names, and there's a mere 7 billion of us. A (*) IDs, serial numbers, handles, identifiers...
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