OpenPG/X.509 interoperability

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:56:25 +0100 (CET), Henning Hucke said:

> X.509 as well as OpenPGP are just package aroung the product. You can 
> use the private and public keys themselfs to package them as OpenPGP or 
> X.509. So this way you can have one and the same key pair to work in 
> both worlds.

Sure, put this is more or less pointless as the
certificates/key-signatures are different.  If you however have just
one smart card you might want to use that key for both formats.  That
is still an item on my todo list.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner