advice please (just about the same over here)

[stebe at mailbox.org]

> stebe at mailbox.org hat am 29. Dezember 2015 um 15:05 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> 
> > Bob Henson <bob.henson at galen.org.uk> hat am 29. Dezember 2015 um 10:07
> > geschrieben:
> > 
> > 
> > On 28/12/2015 10:22 pm, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, Steve Butler <sbutler at fchn.com> wrote:
> > > 
> 
> > If, as you imply above, you are looking for a more universal system of
> > encryption, then PGP/OpenPGP certainly isn't the one to use - it is
> > intended to be a "person to person" system used between people known
> > to
> > one another and whose keys can be countersigned with absolute
> > certainty.
> > There is already a system, albeit far from perfect, which lends itself
> > to large scale use and that is the X.509 certificate system - already
> > widely used.
> > 
> (Sorry for appending a slightly off-topic question to this thread, well,
> I
> really like the person-to person design of gpg and the WebofTrust, and
> the
> enigmail extension makes it quite easy to get along, the Enigmail
> handbook
> is written in a clear and concise manner suited for beginners as well as
> for more technical users...whenever you need a free German translation,
> knock on my door!)
> 
> By the way, talking about the X509 certificate system, which is the
> exact
> command line syntax to verify (using openssl, I guess) a given
> certificate's signature by using the public key of the certificate that
> has issued the certificate to be verified? 

Resolved. I have found the specific command line syntax. And sorry (to the
author/translator), there IS a German Enigmail handbook translation. I
only use the English original and I've never taken a look at the German
version.

A nice New Year's eve to everyone

Stebe