secret key id disclosure

[Ryan Malayter]

My DSS/DH secret keys don't have the same key-id as their corresponding
public keys. Perhaps that relationship is true only of RSA keys?

:::Ryan Malayter
:::Bank Administration Institute
:::Chicago, Illinois, USA

:::Ryan Malayter, MCSE
:::Bank Administration Institute
:::Chicago, Illinois, USA


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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 2:45 AM
To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Subject: Re: secret key id disclosure



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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

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