Key ID format: short or long?

[Jens Peter Secher]

2008/10/22 Michael Kesper <mkesper at fsfe.org>:
>
> Well, keys cannot be identified by the 8 chars alone.
> I've once been to a key-signing-party with about 150 people and guess
> what: There were collisions with other existing keys if you only would have
> looked at the last 8 chars of the fingerprint.
>

That was quite unlucky, because there should be approximately 77000
people gathered together to get a probability of 50% of a collision,
according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack. :-)
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                                                    Jens Peter Secher.
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