On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 12:36:13AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> What about the two big "free" X.509" suppliers (CACert and Thawte)
> do they sign OpenPGP keys?
Thawte used to, but doesn't anymore. CACert does.
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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:56:25 +0100 (CET), Henning Hucke said:
> X.509 as well as OpenPGP are just package aroung the product. You can
> use the private and public keys themselfs to package them as OpenPGP or
> X.509. So this way you can have one and the same key pair to work in
> both worlds.
S
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:42:48 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer said:
> What do you mean by "private extension"?
OpenPGP defines identifier ranges for private and experimental use.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:36:13 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer said:
>
> > This is perhaps a stupid question but how far are these two standards
> > interoperable?
>
> They are not interoperable.
Depends on what you rate to be "interoperable" (see below)
Werner Koch wrote:
Can X.509 certificates be used to sign/certificate OpenPGP UIDs?
No. You can add a private extension to do so.
What do you mean by "private extension"?
Chris.
(from now on,.. imply my "best wishes" =) )
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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:36:13 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer said:
> This is perhaps a stupid question but how far are these two standards
> interoperable?
They are not interoperable.
> Can X.509 certificates be used to sign/certificate OpenPGP UIDs?
No. You can add a private extension to do
Alaric Dailey wrote:
CAcert offers a GPG signature if your persona has been verified, and I
wrote this as well.
http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/ConvertingCertificateToPgp
Uhm,.. but that way I create a NEW key,... correct?
I was looking for a signature for my EXISTING key.
if this doesn't an
