Collision attack against long Key Ids

[Peter Pentchev]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 10:56:06AM -0600, John Z. wrote:
> It helps a lot! Thank you for the time and effort put to write it all
> up - its not far away from what I presumed might be happening, but of
> course with far more detailed explanation.
> I find it even more interesting how you precisely analyzed what I just
> disliked about that 'HN style'.
> 
> I mean, there were heated online opinion exchanges ever since there was
> internet, and they persist, but I don't recall so much 'activism' combined
> with these opinion exchanges, except only in past decade and a half.

I think you may have missed some discussions on Slashdot... :)

> It concerns me to think what's going to happen and how will things evolve
> once all the people who were involved with GNU (or Linux) from beginning,
> or are the 'second generation' (like myself) - are gone, and there's no
> one left who has curiosity, or can even understand, let alone write and
> maintain such high-complexity code.
> Especially when you add LLM into the mix.

I don't know, I can think offhand of more than a few packagers and
developers for various Linux distributions who are all under
the age of 25. I don't think the sky is falling just yet.

G'luck,
Peter

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Peter Pentchev  roam at ringlet.net roam at debian.org peter at morpheusly.com
PGP key:        https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc
Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115  C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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