TOFU

Peter Lebbing peter at digitalbrains.com
Wed Jun 21 21:04:09 CEST 2017


On 21/06/17 20:49, Peter Lebbing wrote:
> which would still
> be marginally safe until computers are much faster, and certainly not a
> short ID which is utterly unsafe and has always been.

Which *might* still be marginally safe. I haven't done any actual
calculations, and I want to seriously dissuade anyone from verifying
keys by their long key ID. Don't do it, kids! 64 bits can be brute
forced, but perhaps it might still be quite some effort to get a working
key with a colliding long ID.

I really should not have written it the way I did in the previous mail,
it was very sloppy.

Peter.

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