On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote: > To check an OpenPGP fingerprint for correctness, it is sufficient (for > practical purposes) to compare the leading and trailing eight > hexadecimal digits, and perhaps a few digits in the middle.
It is, only if you prefer these odds... 16^16/2^64 = 1.00 16^19/2^76 = 1.00 I believe collisions in the former are already well known. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
