Fingerprint / Key Address

[SigningKey]

What about "Verification Code" as it is used for verification?

[dkg]

"code" has all sorts of different meanings, and it's not clear what particular verification we're referring to.

If i get a signed e-mail from you and i want to verify it, do I need your verification code? I do not, if i already have your full key.

you can use the fingerprint for (at least) two different things:

• key lookup (given this fingerprint, ask a keyserver or local storage for a copy of the key)
• key confirmation (given a key, confirm that it has this fingerprint)

Really, this is an "identity", which makes it rather painful that the term "key ID" is already polluted with a slight variant meaning.

[Valodim]

has the term "key address" been proposed and discussed anywhere yet (outside the summit)?

[AlexStrobel]

Afaik, this term wasn't discussed anywhere else outside the terminology repo. It is mentioned there but there there wasn't a discussion about it until now.

[SigningKey]

About "Key Address":

• For key lookup:
  Needing both the "Key Address" and the address of a keyserver to get a key is rather confusing.
• For key confirmation:
  Here it does make sense. To verify the right person gets something you confirm their address is right, but a user would have to two confirm addresses (E-Mail and Key)