Vanity Key

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 2 April 2013 18:45, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:

> On 04/02/2013 05:40 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> > In bitcoin you have the concept of a 'vanity key' much like vanity
> license
> > plates, see:
> >
> > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0
> >
> > I wonder if there is anything similar for public keys in GPG?
>
> Conceptually, looking for a key with a given fingerprint suffix or keyid
> seems like a similar idea.
>
> People already do this:
>
> http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-news.html
>

Thanks, very interesting!


>
>         --dkg
>
> PS the copy of your e-mail that i received appears to be addressed with
> the following header:
>
>  To: Jay Litwyn on GnuPG-Users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org>
>
> I'm not Jay Litwyn, but i hope you don't mind my responding anyway. ;)
> Maybe your addressbook needs a tuneup?
>

Oops sorry ... I think it's something to do with Gmail.  I'll fix that up,
thank you.


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