SMIME vs PGP

[Werner Koch]

On Thu,  7 Feb 2008 00:11, pg at futureware.at said:

> OpenOffice uses XML-DSig, not S/Mime. 

Oh dear.

> XML-DSig, PKCS#7 and S/Mime are all using X.509 certificates.
> (And even CMS, but I haven´t seen that one in practice yet)

CMS is the same as PKCS#7, it is just a new name with some minor
semantic changes.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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