gpgme license

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Thu Jul 25 12:01:01 2002


On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 21:35:09 +1200 (NZST), Peter Gutmann said:

> Just to nitpick here, I think you mean the incompatibilities of *X.509* are
> huge.  Compatibility between S/MIME implementations is actually quite good.

If you have a complete list of algorithm identifiers ;-)

> S/MIME doesn't require X.509 (I've been doing it with PGP keys for several
> years now), so it's not a deadly failing.

You mean by using the subjectKeyIdentifier?  What method of creating
it should be used?  The RFC mentions 2, afaik you use a modified one
and for me it would make sense to use the PGP fingerprint.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner