can't handle public key algorithm 100

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Wed Jul 17 01:02:01 2002


On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:33:30PM +0100, Shane Wright wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Thanks for the info, the key is attached if it's any help.  
> 
> getting OT - but I thought X.509 was pretty standard - isn't it used
> in S/MIME or am I getting it completely wrong.

Yes, this is a X.509 sort of key.  PGP (the company, not the program)
has a way of converting these to PGP keys, but this is not part of the
standard, and isn't in GnuPG.

X.509 is a standard, just like OpenPGP is.  They're just not the same
standard :)

David

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