using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 10:06:29 CET 2008


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Robert J. Hansen escribió:
> Andre Amorim wrote:
>>> X.509 (the standard used by freemail certs) and OpenPGP use the same
>>> underlying algorithms, but the protocols are dramatically different.
>>> Making them interoperate is hard, and is usually not worth it.
>> Robert did you already check this:
> 
> The paper does not propose a way to allow X.509 and OpenPGP to
> interoperate.  It's instead proposing something much different, which is
> unrelated to the original poster's request.

  Right, but thinking about he said he wanted some explanations from an
user point of view, I think we should advice him to don't try to make
both standards to interoperate... at least, not at "code" level...

  I was accepted in GSWoT about 2 days ago, so I am still unsure how
does it operate to extend the WoT, but as far as I know, the aim of
GSWoT is to make a link (or bridge) between x.509 certificates and PGP
keys... Of course it may be -or may not be- a solution for his
problem... if the challenger doesn't trust CAcert, or Thawte, or GSWoT...
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