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Re: [openpgp] New fingerprint: to v5 or not to v5

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Sun, 04 October 2015 01:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] New fingerprint: to v5 or not to v5
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On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:40, dkg@fifthhorseman.net said:
> >
> >> v4 key and wrap it in a v5 packet, thereby producing a "new key" that's
> >> actually the "same key".  So claiming that key material can only be used
> >> as *either* v4 or v5 wouldn't quite be correct.
> >
> > FWIW: I was thinking about this but that is not limited to OpenPGP.  I
> > can use the same key material for an OpenPGP key, an X.509 key, and an
> > SSH key.  This is actually sometimes useful if you have a single key on
> > a smartcard.
>
> Have you conducted a proper cross-protocol analysis of what data each
> key type is used to sign showing that this interaction doesn't lead to
> bad things happening?
>

Yes, hence the reason for my UDF design which salts the hash with the mime
content type of the data being hashed. Thus one fingerprint format can be
used for a S/MIME key or an OpenPGP key or an SSH key.

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