-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 David Newman wrote: >> I was thinking... in case I want to put my key ID in a business card, >> what format should I use? Short format (8 characters) or long format >> (16 >> characters)? With or without the '0x' prefix? >> > > I would use the entire fingerprint in the same format as reported > by --fingerprint (10 groups of 4 hex chars). The key ID is last > 8 characters of the fingerprint. At one point I even had a rubber > stamp made up with the fingerprint so I could just stamp my business > cards with it.
Since 'fingerprint exchange' is the most widely recognized form of Key Identification I concur with David. If space/character count affects Cost issues then I would default to the 16 0xformat and then, secondarily to the 8 character 0xformat position. David Shaw just Posted so I am gonna see what He recommends. JOHN ;) Timestamp: Tuesday 21 Oct 2008, 15:05 --400 (Eastern Daylight Time) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10-svn4845: (MingW32) Comment: Public Key at: http://tinyurl.com/8cpho Comment: Gossamer Spider Web of Trust: https://www.gswot.org Comment: Homepage: http://tinyurl.com/yzhbhx iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJI/iggAAoJEBCGy9eAtCsPUtkH/3DxpfUFghcmhbVWoa4jLD0p NleoTmwjtT0c7nAyQ+UrIpbKCkcw2oDAgiHl0DVLbGptXCjCKM1xnf6VgGNrlqfs EqjqZkjaHo7omL6n/z4YOGKndFIJ4eIryVen0htOobTSKBckWmrLQqcSxWxokW46 DSTDHskUywgTb6dE8zLFzsWAokfkUsd9vk17/Ut6xEU0OWKbYAq775riZrJiltnw qhlXj3CCSF0SNFutZMYXAqkMgcbGm7aEkAUR2yIEBN/wGzB5fM1N39mjNlNdImXW jsOKL9AS+TSuxI+MIWZIM+fGHyYFvjydqf05j0+W1ULUl7wAjweZ30tFyYFKbzw= =G6Mo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
