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| pgpfan:wtmwp [2022/01/18 22:27] – Need to use unicode horizontal bar for title. b.walzer | pgpfan:wtmwp [2022/01/20 02:01] – Typos b.walzer |
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| The OpenPGP "key fingerprint" is easier to compare as it only contains numbers and the first 6 letters of the alphabet. That is opposed to the longer miniLock public key that has numbers and the alphabet in both upper and lower case. The miniLock example is probably as good as it will ever get for using the public key directly and it doesn't quite win the contest against the key fingerprint. Different systems, such as, say, quantum resistant public keys are likely to be much larger than any of the examples given. The use of a key fingerprint would be required and things would be very awkward if you had committed to the use of the public key directly. | The OpenPGP "key fingerprint" is easier to compare as it only contains numbers and the first 6 letters of the alphabet. That is as opposed to the longer miniLock public key that has numbers and the alphabet in both upper and lower case. The miniLock example is probably as good as it will ever get for using the public key directly and it doesn't quite win the contest against the key fingerprint. Different systems, such as, say, quantum resistant public keys are likely to be much larger than any of the examples given. The use of a key fingerprint would be required and things would be very awkward if you had committed to the use of the public key directly. |
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| Now the post complains about the behaviour of GnuPG: | Now the post complains about the behaviour of GnuPG: |
| >//PGP Key IDs are also pretty terrible, due to the short length and continued support for the broken V3 key format.// | >//PGP Key IDs are also pretty terrible, due to the short length and continued support for the broken V3 key format.// |
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| A key ID is a sort of a nickname of a key fingerprint. By convention is is some portion of the key fingerprint starting from the right side. The value in the "Key ID" field is not the key ID of the given key fingerprint and is very unlikely to be any key ID. The post fails to specify why V3 keys are bad and why anyone should be bothered by their continued support. | A key ID is a sort of a nickname of a key fingerprint. By convention it is some portion of the key fingerprint starting from the right side. The value in the "Key ID" field is not the key ID of the given key fingerprint and is very unlikely to be any key ID. The post fails to specify why V3 keys are bad and why anyone should be bothered by their continued support. |
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| >//PGP key management sucks// | >//PGP key management sucks// |
