Netscape Certificates, RSA Keys, and GPG?

[Pedro Díaz Jiménez]

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On Friday 29 June 2001 13:17, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote:
> Justin Wienckowski wrote/napisa³[a]:
> > My company issues personal certificates (for use by Netscape and IE) as
> > part of our PKI services.  We're currently trying to extend that
> > infastructure to support digital signatures, and guess who gets to
> > develop it? ;)
> >
> >
> > The short of it is, we're using RSA keypairs in these signed
> > certificates. I can extract the RSA public and private keys using
> > openssl's pkcs12 and x509 libraries, but neither GPG nor PGP seem to like
> > the resulting pem-formatted RSA keypair.
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions for how to import these RSA keys into gpg (highly
> > preferred) or pgp?  I'm not even quite sure what problems I"m running
> > into, as I'm not intimately familiar with the PEM message format that
> > gpg/pgp are attempting to parse.
>
> You can't do this, period. Certs you are talking about are X509 certs and
> have completely different structure. You can't make them into OpenPGP
> keys w/ signatures.
>
> The only software for Linux I know of supporting it is Netscape, premail
> with RIPEM and some mutation of mutt.
Hi,

Mozilla also supports X509 certs in mail & web

Cheers
Pedro
>
> Alex

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