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. > > ================================================================= > 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] > -- Behdad Esfahbod 11 Mordad 1382, 2003 Aug 2 http://behdad.org/ [Finger for Geek Code] If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it. ================================================================= 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]
