Using second keyring may be misleading?

[Georgi Guninski]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:23:20AM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> A few people pointed it out in the mid-1990s (that long ago!) but I think it was first proposed by Paul Leyland at Oxford.
> 
> Here's an old posting about it:  http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/browse_thread/thread/25248ce8d6dfc1e4/e5372a1bd972dc07
> 
> It was one of the many things that prompted the V4 key format.  It doesn't break the web of trust, but can confuse people (and implementations) as to which key is which.
>

So it still confuses implementations? :)


I am doing something similar - fixed the lowest 64 bits of p,q
and generated random high bits until 2 primes are found.

Even (or maybe divisible by 4) v4 keyids would need more
patching or using something other than gpg for key generation.