Il giorno 20/feb/2013, alle ore 19:44, Bernhard Seibold 
<[email protected]> ha scritto:

> Hi!
> 
> I noticed that in the user profile, the PGP Key ID is 8 hex digits only. This 
> is a bad idea:
> 
> http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-news.html
> 
> Honestly I don't know what that Key ID is used for, but it should be either 
> fixed or removed.



Thanks, we are in the process of defining an overhaul of the security of PyPI, 
and removing short key IDs is already considered:
https://docs.google.com/a/develer.com/document/d/1DgQdDCZY5LiTY5mvfxVVE4MTWiaqIGccK3QCUI8np4k/edit

(see task #10: Use GPG key fingerprints instead of short IDs)

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