-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Wilfried, Thank you for your presentation of the proposed IRT object for the RIPE database at TERENA's TF-CSIRT meeting in Barcelona last week. I am sure that including this information in the database will help to get complaints to the right place more quickly, and so improve the chances of resolving problems successfully. My only observation, made after the presentation, is that the PGP key ID can no longer be assumed to be unique. The KeyID is a hash value and there were reports last year of collisions having occurred where two different keys produced the same KeyID. I think you were only proposing to use the KeyID as part of the handle to identify a PGP key object, so it should not be a problem to add extra characters into the handle to resolve naming clashes. All the best, Andrew -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use <http://www.pgpi.com> iQEVAwUBOm1geXnoxmgUypZhAQHs8QgAgZbCHvGtdPPINZyw9ukJl4jTZwLTu44z FLLa9kSxlAM+qKA5qHbPaCMgHgpcp8u5/S2F8T8/9aZY9xdb99OxL+eyZc3nmMUC Vb9CI9kYtGl8e/FJAIxQz1bwOR0dUbaHLp2HhLLifA6enWf5oBsRlOrsZErDxzCs UPXpHrBm/izkJDSteZWqr33MLXkb6YBPCYYvlJbYm3emFdmlj62p6x9B4Ldr8/mI 8ntL03DwEpfbwnylhLUCrYG16UUbJTkLW7aaUcgOcOhcb/XYsbpht1mD3qNsx5fz uNS/v7Y+0inead41BoSzg49CMd1qT3DjxvwjmQJOYXNHepjBj8ZDPg== =aOBY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Cormack Head of CERT UKERNA, Atlas Centre, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon. OX11 0QS Phone: 01235 822 302 E-mail: Andrew.Cormack@ukerna.ac.uk Fax: 01235 822 398