Local ID not unique for subkeys

[L. Sassaman]

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On 29 Apr 2000, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Public subkeys share the local key ID with the primary key:
> 
> pub:u:1024:17:52EF18AB5D9C93EE:2000-01-04::73:-:Dummy user (DO NOT USE THIS KEY!
> ) <dummy@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>:
> sub:u:1024:16:A7FD9832B457CC18:2000-01-04::73::
> sub:u:1024:20:42918E6BE868BBD5:2000-04-29::73::
> 
> Wouldn't it make more sense if a new ID was assigned?  Is there any
> other way to uniquely identify subkeys?

Each subkey has its own key id, as you have just demonstrated above.


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