Subject: Re: KeyID as left vs right substring of fingerprint

From: Thomas Roessler <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:21:09 +0200

On 2000-05-25 09:45:24 -0700, [email-masked] wrote:

> The only keys that used right substrings would be
> "legacy" DSA and ElGamal keys (assuming that no one
> else has implemented RSA V4 keys, which I am not sure
> about).  We might do some kind of upgrade to DSA keys
> when the new larger hash is announced later this year,
> and they could switch at that time.  Maybe some
> arbitrary change could be made to ElGamal as well.

If things absolutely have to be changed in an incompatible
way, please use a different packet version (say, V5) for
this, so old software nicely breaks on it.

Everything else will lead to considerable confusion of
users and software.

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