making the X.509 infrastructure available for OpenPGP

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Feb 5 21:06:25 CET 2014


On Wed,  5 Feb 2014 19:04, peter at digitalbrains.com said:

> An X.509 certification obviously certifies that a certain X.509 certificate
> belongs to the person or role identified by the Distinguished Name. But seen a

Almost all X.509 certification in public use certify only one of two
things:

 - Someone has pushed a few bucks over to the CA.

 - Someone has convinced the CA to directly or indirectly issue a
   certificate.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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