Fingerprint addition

[David Shaw]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:51:37AM +0000, Stefan Sels wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was just thinking about GnuPG/PGP fingerprints and thought if it
> wouldn?t be usefull to add a new part to the fingerprint :
> 
> A78B 16A7 E6AE 8930 1F69  6D96 46B9 E688 42CE 3635 / 9AA9 D811
> 
> The new part behind / is the md5sum of the public key including
> signatures so you could track if the "current" public key is
> valid. I know it would be better to put an expiry on a key but it
> would be an good adition to an complete static fingerprint.

The problem with this is that given two fingerprints, you have no way
to tell them apart.

For example, given:

> A78B 16A7 E6AE 8930 1F69  6D96 46B9 E688 42CE 3635 / 9AA9 D811

and:

> A78B 16A7 E6AE 8930 1F69  6D96 46B9 E688 42CE 3635 / A789 542F

Which is the "current" one?

David

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