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Re: [openpgp] Fingerprints

2015-04-11 05:51:49
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:37, calestyo(_at_)scientia(_dot_)net said:

Why? Isn't that exactly what the past has taught us? That using one
fixed fingerprint algo leads into all kinds of troubles?

Trouble with a fingerprint?  I am interested to hear about such a case.
(ssh's default use of MD5 does not count).

key.
And it caused also issues, when people *did* assume they'd be secure.

Yeah, similar to the common behaviour of only comparing the first and
last 2 bytes of SHA-1 fingerprints and checksums.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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