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[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

Some followup on a past conversation :

Enrico Zini <enrico at enricozini.org> writes:

>
> A comment on the model:
>
>   class GPGPubKey(models.Model):
>       keyid = models.CharField(max_length=16)
>       fpr = models.CharField(max_length=40)
>
>       def __unicode__(self):
>           return self.keyid + ' - ' + self.fpr
>
> since a fingerprint is a valid identifier and a keyid is just a
> substring of the fingerprint, this can just be:
>
>   class GPGPubKey(models.Model):
>       fpr = models.CharField(max_length=40, unique=True)
>
>       def __unicode__(self):
>           return self.fpr
>

Reading "OpenPGP Key IDs are not useful"
(http://debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/105 , pointed to by
zack this morning), I tend to think that we may need to instead use
fingerprints to avoid collisions.

What's your feeling ?

Best regards,

-- 
Olivier BERGER 
http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8
Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)