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Wolf: Stop it with those short PGP key IDs!

Wolf: Stop it with those short PGP key IDs!

Posted Jun 7, 2016 23:31 UTC (Tue) by gwolf (subscriber, #14632)
In reply to: Wolf: Stop it with those short PGP key IDs! by cortana
Parent article: Wolf: Stop it with those short PGP key IDs!

As for now, we are still perfectly safe by cross-signing based on the 160-bit key fingerprints. Having the full 4K of your public key is overkill. Besides, you'd have to strip the key to get just the 4K part (as it would most probably already carry signatures and other attributes).


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