On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: > there is a limited number of key IDs and supposedly a greater number of > circulating keys, then there must be two keys which share the same ID.
It is not SUPPOSEDLY a greater number of keys. If your key is 1024 bit long, you will need 64 hexa signs to express it. The fingerprint only contains 40 hexa signs, and the key ID only contains 8. So there are more keys to choose from than key IDs or fingerprints. With central coordination, a database maybe, and probably not making it possible to compute the key ID and fingerprint from the key itself, it might be possible to assign the first 16**8 keys a different key ID, but since the gpg can work in a distributed manner (i.e. the keyserver just holds the key, it does not compute its key ID), then we must resolve to the natural way of doing it: Simply compute the fingerprint (and hence the ID) from the key itself. 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]
