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Re: KeyID as left vs right substring of fingerprint

2000-05-28 04:44:09
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Jon Callas wrote:

If I were really going to roto-till the spec, I'd get rid of key ids
altogether and only use fingerprints. There have already been problems with

I'd second this.  However, the user will not see a difference as we
can still present him a keyID, although we are not using it anymore.
Using the keyID as a way to select a key is still a nice feature
because typing the whole fingerprint is not that easy.  

  Werner

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