Using TC Trustcenter.de certificates

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Dec 8 08:26:24 CET 2005


On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:26:38 +0100, Markus Plail said:

> Ok, thanks for the info, but is there a way to import p12 into gpg? I
> didn't get it to work and so worked around it by importing the p12 key

No OpenPGP and X.509 are different formats. You can't import them.
PGP uses a hack to encapsulate an X.509 certificate within an OpenPGP
keyblock probably for use with their VPN stuff.  The specs are
available but IMHO it does not make much sense.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner




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