Re: [openpgp] Version 5 key and fingerprint proposal

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Thu, 16 March 2017 13:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Version 5 key and fingerprint proposal
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:34, pete@petertodd.org said:

> Have you considered making fingerprints a non-hexidecimal encoding, such as
> base32? They could be the same size, but with more bits.

The human readable fingerprint format is out of scope for the spec.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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