including the entire fingerprint of the issuer in an OpenPGP certification

[David Shaw]

On Jan 17, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> Would there be any objection to a new subpacket type for OpenPGPv4 that
> would include the remaining 96 bits of the issuer's fingerprint?  (the
> "high 96" proposal)
> 
> Alternately, what about a new subpacket type that simply includes the
> entire 160 bits of the issuer's fingerprint?   (the "full fingerprint"
> proposal)

I like this idea.  I would do it as "full fingerprint" myself.  The difference in storage between 160 bits and 96 bits is all of 8 bytes.  I think the simplicity of being able to say the whole fingerprint is in there is worth a measly 8 bytes.

Do we necessarily need a new subpacket type for this?  It could pretty easily be a notation.

David