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

ianG <iang@iang.org> Mon, 05 October 2015 21:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] New fingerprint: to v5 or not to v5
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On 5/10/2015 07:33 am, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Mon,  5 Oct 2015 12:27, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz said:

> Is your request to leave the timestamp out of a v5 fingerprint
> computation?


Makes sense to me.

Or, as it is just a calculation, the 4 octets MUST be set to 0.

> That would make some things easier but raises the issue that the owner
> of the key can change the creation date and only the then broken key
> signatures and the history of self-signatures would reflect this.


I don't understand why that is an issue for the fingerprint?


>> If the keyring format is redefined for the PGPng, I'd really like to see the
>
> That is out of scope for the current work.


:)  Maybe spun off into a separate draft?

iang

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