key id

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:19:55AM +1100, Drake Diedrich wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:15:13PM +1100, jeremy at itassist.net.au wrote:
> > I forgot to scribble down my key-id on my bits of paper at the
> 
>    The key-id is just the low 4 bytes (last 8 characters) of the
> fingerprint, so it was still there.  gpg has started to shift to using 8
> bytes of the 16-20 that make up a fingerprint, I suppose in the optimisitic
> hope there there will soon be collisions in the 32 bit space.  :)

Not that optimistic, the birthday paradox means that the probabilty of
collisions starts getting reasonably high once you have about 2^16
users - around 65000.

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