making the X.509 infrastructure available for OpenPGP

[Werner Koch]

On Wed,  5 Feb 2014 06:03, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:

> Werner recently (in message ID 87zjmv127f.fsf at vigenere.g10code.de)
> indicated his acceptance of a notation named extended-usage at gnupg.org
> with a value that can be set to "bitcoin".  Maybe the same notation

We can do that as soon as gniibe has finihsed hist work.

> could be used to indicate "s/mime-sign" or "s/mime-encrypt" for these

No problem.  But name it cms-sign and cms-encrypt.  CMS is used by
S/MIME but can and is used standalone.  Same as with OpenPGP and
PGP/MIME.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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