Gnupg and X509 certificates

Wed Apr 4 17:39:04 2001

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Hello everybody,
I have an "interoperability" problem. We see that X509 certificates are =
commonly used on the web and Certification Authorities usually give X509 =
certificates.
My doubts are:
1) Is there a tool to conver X509 certificates to GPG keys?
2) Why in GPG X509 certificates were completely ignored (More =
theoretical question, but important for me to understand)?

Any suggestion would be of great help
Paolo

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