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Re: V4 Fingerprints

1997-11-25 18:16:37
Thomas Roessler, <roessler(_at_)guug(_dot_)de>, writes:
From the draft:
8.2 V4 Key IDs and Fingerprints
[...]

This seems to imply that the fingerprint is always
generated as the hash over an old-style public key packet
with a two-byte length qualifier and the appropriate
packet tag.  Is this correct and intended?

Yes, this is correct, for the new 20-byte fingerprints.

Hal

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