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Re: [openpgp] Fingerprint requirements for OpenPGP

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Tue, 12 April 2016 19:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Fingerprint requirements for OpenPGP
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:44, derek@ihtfp.com said:

> This would fall under an "internal DB Identifier."  DKG called that out of
> scope for this discussion topic.

It is not "internal" because it is part of the OpenPGP protocol
(Signature Packet) and thus visible by all who are verifying a
signature.

I define "internal" as a property of the implementation - maybe this is
the misunderstanding.

> There is no human in the loop here.  That means it does not need to be
> "the same" as the user-visible "fingerprint".

Need not, right.  But adding yet another identifier to a key only leads
to more confusion and more complex error handling.  I do not expect that
you want OpenPGP to repeat the error made by X.509.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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