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

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Tue, 06 October 2015 08:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] New fingerprint: to v5 or not to v5
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On Mon,  5 Oct 2015 13:44, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz said:

> Either leave it out or, much better, use an explicit ID stored with the key
> rather than one that's implicitly calculated from various bits and pieces

That explicit ID sounds pretty much like a issuer+serialno or one of the
other X.509 methods to identify a key.  It is not a fingerprint as we
know it and it can't be used as a secure identification of the key.

> surrounding the key.  That's how PKCS #15 and (ugh) PKCS #12 do it, it makes
> key lookup much less of a pain and avoids the current lost-key problem where
> you can't match up a key to a signature even though it's present and

Lost key?  Do you mean missing Issuer subpacket (5.2.3.5) or one
pointing two keys with duplicated long keyids?  I have never seen the
former and in any case I would consider this a corrupted message.  To
fix the latter we will certainly define the use of a fingerprint.

> I can't see anything in the charter that would exclude it, it says the work
> items "include, but are not limited to ...", and specifically allows for work
> that won't unduly delay things and that has support from the WG.

Changing the entire packet structure is not an easy thing and definitely
would delay the listed goals.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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