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Re: [openpgp] Mining protection in fingerprint schemes

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Sat, 09 April 2016 09:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Mining protection in fingerprint schemes
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On Sat,  9 Apr 2016 04:35, dkg@fifthhorseman.net said:

> (and there's no reason that OpenKeychain needs to use the fingerprint --
> for Ed25519 keys, they could just put the public key itself in the QR

Which would also encourage not to add a salt (creation timestamp) so
that there is no need to somehow also convey the creation timestamp.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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