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Re: including the entire fingerprint of the issuer in an OpenPGP certification

Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> Tue, 18 January 2011 17:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: including the entire fingerprint of the issuer in an OpenPGP certification
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> I agree.  Further I am not sure whether we should do this full
> fingerprint proposal right now or better wait for SHA-3.  If we would
> settle now for a new fingerprint signature subpacket we will for sure
> need to revise that for SHA-3.  We would need to maintain code for the
> current fingerprint as well as for a SHA-3 for a little eternity.

If we combine it with a hash-independent fingerprint -- e.g., first byte is an algorithm ID, others are the actual hash -- then we can put it in now and then run with it.

	Jon


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