Re: including the entire fingerprint of the issuer in an OpenPGP certifi

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:45, dshaw(_at_)jabberwocky(_dot_)com said:

> Rather than first byte being an algorithm ID, how about first byte
> being the version of the fingerprint?  So, it would be "4" for the
> current fingerprint, "5"
I think this is better than just the algorithm id.  It can be used to
account for different ways of computing the fingerprint as it matches
the version number of the key packets.  We don't specify the the
fingerprint algorithm at any other place directly; thus why do it here.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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