Key ID format: short or long?

[Faramir]

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Robert J. Hansen escribió:

>> They are not going to use the fingerprint to retrieve
>> the key, only to verify that the retrieved key is yours.
> 
> Sure they are.  Where do you think the key ID comes from?  It's the last
> eight hex digits of the fingerprint.

  Yes, you are right, but remember newbies like me maybe don't know
that, and maybe they think about fingerprints and Key IDs as 2 separated
things... And the 2 GUIs I use ask for a Key ID to perform the
searches... It seems we have another entry for the FAQ:

Q: "I got a fingerprint, but not a Key ID, how do I search the key?"

A: "The Key ID is the last part of the fingerprint, it can be 8 or 16
characters long (short and long formats). Use those last digits to do
the search, and then use the whole fingerprint to check you found the
right key".

  Best Regards
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