Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:48:45PM +0930, Alphax wrote: > >>>The application is free to do whatever it wants with these objects, >>>given sufficient authentication to the card (PIN). Technically, there is >>>nothing CA can do to prevent you to use your X.509 keys as OpenPGP keys. >> >>I think I might have seen something like that with a Thawte Freemail >>root certificate or something... it wasn't pretty :( > > > When Thawte signed PGP keys as a part of Web Of Trust program, they used the > same key in both OpenPGP and X.509 form. > > Why you say it wasnt pretty? An actual RSA modulus is well hidden within the > stuff so it doesn't really matter. >
They converted the same key several times, so there were 3 or so keys with the same long fingerprint, but different creation times - multiple copies of the same key. Is it possible to arbitrarily make an OpenPGP key with whatever keypair? -- Alphax | /"\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 | X Against HTML email & vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up | / \ _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users