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Re: SHA-1 broken
2005-02-17 15:06:45
My feeling is that a key fingerprint is the *least* of the things that
are in danger from a SHA-1 break.
A key fingerprint is little more than a hash of the key material, the
creation time, and a few constants. There's very little place in there
to manufacture a collision. Fingerprints need little more than
one-way-ness.
Furthermore, it is imperative that a fingerprint be short. The whole
reason for having them is that they are short. All the things you want
a fingerprint for require it being short. Twenty bytes is plenty long
enough for one. Otherwise just get rid of the fingerprint and just
write down the key.
Jon
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