Fingerprints and Key-IDs

[Werner Koch]

On Sat,  6 Aug 2016 16:06, ilf at zeromail.org said:

> I assume that the option --keyid-format was first "widely" used to
> mitigate from --keyid-format "short" to "long" after the first

12 years ago:

  Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.6 (2004-05-22)
  ------------------------------------------------

    * New --keyid-format option that selects short (99242560), long
      (DB698D7199242560), 0xshort (0x99242560), or 0xlong
      (0xDB698D7199242560) keyid displays.  This lets users tune the
      display to what they prefer.

We simply can't remove that.

> But as dkg has argued in 2013, we should move away from --keyid-format
> "short" *and* "long". Which is why "none" was introduced and is now

9 years after we first suggested that ;-)

> 2.b. Long term: Remove the parameter entirely.

Long term is to use 2.1 and that defaults to the new format.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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