FAQ maintenance

[Andrew Gallagher]

On 26/02/16 15:29, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>
> "It's a *number*?  But it uses A through F."
> 
> "I don't understand.  Why do I need the long ID?"
> 
> "Wait, now I need to use the *entire* fingerprint?"
> 
> "You can't be serious: I need to give a 40-character serial number
> whenever I need to identify a key?"
> 
> "What do you *mean*, future keys will be expanding to 64 characters?!"
> 
> 
> ... In all this discussion about what's mathematically optimal, I'm
> dejected to see how little we're talking about human factors.

:-)

The fundamental problem here is that computers have become so powerful
that they can generate more data objects than human beings can ever give
distinct names(*) to. Hell, we can't even give *ourselves* unique names,
and there's a mere 7 billion of us.

A

(*) IDs, serial numbers, handles, identifiers...

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