In message <p04310108b4eabe46523c@[130.227.158.132]>, "Povl H. Pedersen" writes
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>
> It will take a long time to generate a new key with a specific
> fingerprint, but nonetheless, this 'overwriting' and hiding of other
> users IDs in the public PGP servers is bad.
Minor nit -- there's a big difference between a "fingerprint" -- which is the
result of a cryptographic hash on the key, and should *never* collide (and if
it does, you can get lots of attention by showing that the hash function isn't
strong enough) -- and a "key id", which is much shorter.
--Steve Bellovin
