On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: > BTW, how does GnuPG know how to generate a unique key ID? I thought the > server assigned it a key ID out of its key pool. Surely, if any GPG > program generates key IDs independetly there will be some collision > between two specific keys?
The KEY ID cannot be unique. It can be well distributed, such thatkeys that vary a little have a very different KEY ID, but since it holds a lot less information than the actual key, there is no way of it being uniqe. Bird house principle (? - SHOVACH YONIM). Orna. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
