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Re: [openpgp] Fingerprints and their collisions resistance

Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> Sun, 06 January 2013 03:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Fingerprints and their collisions resistance
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On Jan 5, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> iirc, there was a rough consensus within this working group that this
> was probably a mistake in RFC 4880, and any future revision of the draft
> should place the full key material into the revocation key subpacket
> instead of the key's fingerprint.

I was about to comment that if we move on shifting to ECC keys as per Andrey's work on them, we could just about eliminate fingerprints and just use the keys.

Also, the point compression patent expired last year.

	Jon

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