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Re: [openpgp] Non-SHA-1 fingerprints in signatures [was: Proposal for a separable ring signature scheme...]

2014-03-14 09:44:34
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:36:23AM -0400, Vincent Yu wrote:
On 03/14/2014 10:24 AM, Peter Pentchev wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:39:31PM -0400, Vincent Yu wrote:
Thanks for the info. I will likely follow your suggestion and modify
my proposal to use V4 fingerprints rather than key IDs.

Hm, how exactly would this deal with the existence of multiple signing
subkeys, all associated with the same master public key?  Your current
proposal explicitly allows for that, using the key IDs; I guess there
might be a need to include *both* the fingerprint of the master key
*and* some kind of identification of the subkey actually used for
signing.

Isn't there a V4 fingerprint defined for every key, including for
each subkey? I think it would be okay just to include the
fingerprints of all possible signing keys, regardless of whether
they are primary keys or subkeys.

If I've misunderstood something, please let me know.

Argh, sorry, stupid of me; of course you're right.  I was a bit misled
by the fact that GnuPG, by default, only outputs the fingerprint of the
primary key when --fingerprint is specified on the command line; I kind
of missed the part where --fingerprint may be given more than once and
it will output the fingerprints of all the subkeys.

G'luck,
Peter

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