[14159] in Cypherpunks
My 2.3a Key is listed as a 2.6 on MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Wed May 25 18:26:55 1994
Date: Wed, 25 May 94 15:27:40 -0700
From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Brian Beker's message of Wed, 25 May 1994 14:17:35 -0700 (PDT) <Pine.3.89.9405251431.A13197-0100000@netcom7>
I was amazed to see that my 2.3a key now carries a 2.6 version number and
lists an 8-bit key ID. The key ID is identical to the old one with two
new characters up front.
You mean--gasp!--that someone downloaded the whole keyring shortly
before the server was due to go down? And then uploaded all the keys
with new version numbers, since nothing else needed to change?
I'm shocked. Simply shocked.
Does this bizarre "upgrading" mean that my key, as downloaded from
that server, will function as a 2.6 key and become incompatible
with 2.3n versions after the September 1st deadline?
No, it means the keyring format didn't change in the new version, and
that 2.6 prints out more of the last digits of your key, which hasn't
actually changed.
Eric
