Over on https://bugs.debian.org/839683 On Mon 2016-10-03 17:48:21 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Asking GnuPG to refuse short Key IDs generally is a weird idea -- where > should they be refused? What if i want to query gpg to see what keys i > have that match a given key ID? What if the *only* thing i have is a > short key ID, and i just want to send someone mail that would otherwise > go in cleartext? should gpg refuse to offer to retreive the key? > > I don't see a clear implementable suggestion for GnuPG in this > discussion yet, sorry :/
I never heard any specific changes that need to be made to GnuPG out of
this discussion, so i'm going ahead and closing #839683 .
If anyone has concrete suggestions, they're welcome to reopen the bug
report (or to open a new one, of course).
--dkg
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