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Re: [openpgp] Fingerprints and their collisions resistance

2013-01-03 16:38:42
On 01/03/2013 11:26 AM, Tony Hansen wrote:
On 1/3/2013 4:33 AM, Nicholas Cole wrote:
One issue with SHA-3 is that the fingerprints are going to be very
long.  How should these be displayed to the user?  Hex strings seem
unsuitable for this task, and I think any new standard should
recommend that fingerprints be displayed in some other way - probably
using a different base.

SHA3 is defined for a variety of hash sizes. Using SHA3 does not imply a
long fingerprint.

I would argue for SHA-3-384 and then possible truncation.

Keccak of different sizes is pretty much implemented as internal truncation anyway (of a large sponge structure), plus there is no different initialization vectors as for SHA-2 for different hash sizes.

The KeyIDs are the truncation of the fingerprint already.
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