On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Dan Armak wrote:
> On Friday 01 August 2003 20:17, Orna Agmon wrote:
> > 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
> > > programgenerates 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).
>
> Which is why you should always verify the fingerprint, which is much more
> unique. The pub key ID is good only for specifying the key quickly when you
> intend to veridy it later.
>
Yeah, so it seems. Upon closer inspection it seems the key ID is the last
8 digits of the key fingerprint.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> --
> Dan Armak
> Matan, Israel
> Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
> Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951
>
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