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Re: [openpgp] Fingerprints

Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> Wed, 15 April 2015 21:04 UTC

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> But shouldn't one define better the number to be either a string?
> Sure a one byte number with 255 possible future algorithms seem plenty
> enough, but people also once thought that about 32bit IPv4 addresses,
> two digit year numbers and so on.

Congratulations, you've just invented OIDs. ;-)

	Jon

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