On Sat 2019-07-27 21:52:55 +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:18:29PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> For the purposes of tag2upload work, would you mind confirming this:
>>
>> On Tue 23 Jul 2019 at 06:38AM +01, Sean Whitton wrote:
>>
>> > AIUI a fingerprint fails to uniquely identify a PGP key unless you also
>> > include the cryptographic algorithm that was used and the key size. So
>> > for example, my current key is uniquely identified by writing both 4096R
>> > and 8DC2487E51ABDD90B5C4753F0F56D0553B6D411B.
>> >
>> > Even though it's unlikely we'll get a clash of fingerprints within the
>> > Debian keyring, it seems the algorithm and keysize ought to be included
>> > alongside the fingerprint, if the above is right.
>
> My understanding is this was true in the days of v3 keys/fingerprints
> but is not the case for v4. If we get to the point we find a collision
> then that's a SHA1 issue that's going to cause bigger issues.
Noodles' understanding is correct. That problem is one of the reasons
that the v3 format is deprecated.
--dkg
