making the X.509 infrastructure available for OpenPGP

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Thursday 6 February 2014 at 2:26:33 PM, in
<mid:52F39B99.6090906 at sixdemonbag.org>, Robert J. Hansen wrote:


> Don't confuse "OpenPGP doesn't need *external* CAs"
> with "OpenPGP doesn't need CAs." You are your own
> certificate authority in OpenPGP; remove yourself as a
> certificate authority and no certificate will possess
> any validity.

I would say that where an individual makes up their own mind which
certificates to mark as valid, they are not using a CA at all. If a
second individual is asking the first individual which certificates
to accept, the second individual is using the first as a CA.


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