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Re: DEADBEEF vs SHA1

2011-02-21 06:49:49

* Jon Callas wrote:
The bottom line is that a key id in that context is a 64-bit binary key
into a database. That's all that it is.

And it is *not unique*. Software has to deal with multiple keys having the
same ID. Not importing v3, because it might generate such ambigious cases,
is not an acceptable solution. V3 keys only enforce standard compliant
behaviour.

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