On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:37, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > Recent versions of GnuPG support S/MIME, which *may* use PKCS-12. (I
Well for 7 years or so ;-) > don't recall offhand for a fact: I just have a vague impression they > do... or maybe it's PKCS-7 I'm thinking of.) PKCS#12 is a bunch of convoluted binary data which is even by ASN.1 standards a nightmare to parse. Despite that these blobs are used to transfer private X.509 keys. GPGSM (GPG's S/MIME cousin) supports it. PKCS#7 (or in modern speak CMS) is the core of S/MIME but, as you pointed out, it is not related to OpenPGP. OpenPGP uses a well defined and easy to parse format for key and data exchange and not any ASN.1 BER and DER mess. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
