From dde0eae9007a9850d034daad2915ea8a3837d168 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Tammi L. Coles" <tlcoles@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 17:52:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] spell out the "not unique" issue to resolve
https://codeberg.org/openpgp/notes/pulls/81#issuecomment-1291244
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book/source/04-certificates.md | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/book/source/04-certificates.md b/book/source/04-certificates.md
index 6b4f746..806e492 100644
--- a/book/source/04-certificates.md
+++ b/book/source/04-certificates.md
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Each OpenPGP component key possesses an *OpenPGP fingerprint*. This fingerprint
```{figure} diag/Fingerprint.png
-Every OpenPGP component key is identifiable by a unique fingerprint.
+Every OpenPGP component key is identifiable by a fingerprint. Although it's technically possible for different keys to share a fingerprint, cryptographic mechanisms make it exceedingly difficult, if not practically impossible with current technology, to find keys that share a fingerprint.
```
The fingerprint of our example OpenPGP component key is `C0A5 8384 A438 E5A1 4F73 7124 26A4 D45D BAEE F4A3 9E6B 30B0 9D55 13F9 78AC CA94`[^keyid].