secret key id disclosure

disastry@saiknes.lv.NO.SPaM.NET disastry@saiknes.lv.NO.SPaM.NET
Wed Oct 10 09:57:02 2001


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chrisb wrote:

> Hello. Have I compromised my secret key or encryption strength
> if I have disclosed its id like this:
>
> pub 1024D/8066516A 2006-12-01 my name <myaddy@my.com>
> sub 1024g/GGGGGGGG 2006-12-01 [expires: 2010-12-01]
> Chris
no. and you can disclose GGGGGGGG without compromising anything too. GGGGGGGG is not the secret key id but the subkey id. btw, secret key have the same key-id as public key == <EOF> == Disastry http://i.am/disastry/ http://disastry.dhs.org/pgp <----PGP plugins for Netscape and MDaemon ^--GPG for Win32 (supports loadable modules and IDEA) ^----PGP 2.6.3ia-multi05 (supports IDEA, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH, AES, 3DES ciphers and MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA2 hashes) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Netscape PGP half-Plugin 0.14 by Disastry / PGPsdk v1.7.1 iQA/AwUBO8PfvjBaTVEuJQxkEQMOdgCgo7Mg13VARHhKBjSjHJMl4Rlek/MAoK5L m2JEZ2WsDW64L1Zo/OA/vuSd =JR5C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----