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Andrew Pennebaker

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Dec 27, 2003, 10:00:55 PM12/27/03

Wouldn't PGPmail check for equality in the case of duplicate key IDs?

AIREGG wrote:
> I've just started to study cryptography and network security. Anyone could
> help me to answer these question:
>
> "In PGP, key IDs are used to distinguish different public keys of a user. A
> key ID is obtained by taking the least significant 64 bits of a public key
> of the user. Using this key ID generation scheme, what is the probability
> that a user with public keys will have at least one duplicate key ID?"
>
> Thanks very much.
>
>
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