Key-id

[Michael Anckaert]

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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:24:33 +0100
Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> wrote:

> The Key ID is actually 8 Byte but applications do only display the
> last 4 bytes of them.  The Key ID itself is convenient an identifier
> for the key and also used in messages to make it easier for an
> application to locate the appropriate key.  The Key ID is not
> necessary unique and a few duplicated keyIDs exists.  It is easy to
> fake such a key ID, so there is no security in it.
> 
> With the modern v4 keys (created by GnuPG and PGP >= 5) the 8 last
> bytes of the fingerprint is used for the Key ID.  Old Keys have their
> own way to calculate the keyID.
> 
ok.
Thanks for the info


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Greetings,
Michael Anckaert
	aka The XanTor
xantor@linux.be
OpenPGP Key: 0xC772D5C1


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