How to import a X509 cert into gpg?

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Song Yi wrote:

>     I can import the X509 cert into PGP6.5.8 on windows. Can I import it
> into GPG on Linux?

OpenPGP does not support X.509.  PGP has a proprietary, incompatible
and undocumented extensions to OpenPGP which seems to allow this.

At some time in the future we _might_ start to work on a extension
of the _OpenPGP_ standard to add some kind of X.509 support to the
protocol.

ciao,

  Werner


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