Better way to ID keys
Werner Koch
wk at isil.d.shuttle.de
Mon May 31 18:04:33 CEST 1999
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ualberta.ca> writes:
> the older RSA keys do not.. Is there any way to get GPG give output (and
> do matches) for a RSA key in v4 form?
It should be possible to transder a key from v3 to v4. But pgp2 will
not be able to handle them and the key IDs and finperprints will chnage
too.
> are not unique then how can I deal with it? There is no other way to
> specify a key than by fingerprint, right?
Hmmm, it would be possible to extend the scheme to specify the key by
giving the complete key as a hexdump (or base64) value :-)
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