Peter Gutmann wrote: > Alphax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Zeljko Vrba wrote: >> >>>Joe Smith wrote: >>> >>>>For example, your CA can revoke your key leaving you with one key that >>>>is invalid X.509, but valid OpenPGP? Yuck! >>>> >>> >>>Using the X.509 cert and OpenPGP public key (having the same private >>>key) could be useful in the following scenario: >> >>Is that even allowed?? > > > SPENGLER (emphatic): Don't cross PGP and X.509. > > VENKMAN: Why not? > > SPENGLER: Trust me. It will be bad. > > VENKMAN: What do you mean "bad?" > > SPENGLER: It's hard to explain, but try to imagine Werner appearing suddenly > and beating you to death with a large copy of the GNU manifesto. > > VENKMAN (with military authority): That's it! No X.509. You guys are > dangerous. >
Wait, where's Richard Stallman in all of this? :) -- 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
