CERT/IRT object in the RIPE database

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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
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Andrew Cormack
Head of CERT
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