Re: [openpgp] Version 5 key and fingerprint proposal

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 02:43:48PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:34, pete(_at_)petertodd(_dot_)org said:
>
> > Have you considered making fingerprints a non-hexidecimal encoding, such as
> > base32? They could be the same size, but with more bits.
> The human readable fingerprint format is out of scope for the spec.
Well, if that's the case, there's no reason to use less than a full 256 bits,
either SHA256 directly, or SHA512 truncated in the standard way.  How much of
that you truncate when displaying the fingerprint is a question for the human
readable spec, not the internal formatting spec.

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