On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, 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
> > 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).

Pigeon hole principle (ASLE LAANE KABOOTARI).

> Orna.
> 
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