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| author | Nils Ellmenreich <[email protected]> | 2001-04-04 16:54:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Nils Ellmenreich <[email protected]> | 2001-04-04 16:54:14 +0000 |
| commit | 64f68589209347000619e5d459c1e21b05b430ee (patch) | |
| tree | 139043849a7ffc5b202ed4be71ff0e298f450f02 | |
| parent | Re-enabled iobuf_translate_file_handle, so that --command-fd et.al continue (diff) | |
| download | gnupg-64f68589209347000619e5d459c1e21b05b430ee.tar.gz gnupg-64f68589209347000619e5d459c1e21b05b430ee.zip | |
why no X509
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/faq.raw | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/faq.raw b/doc/faq.raw index bef313970..bc9170dfd 100644 --- a/doc/faq.raw +++ b/doc/faq.raw @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ The most recent version of the FAQ is available from [H H1]GNUPG FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS[H /H1] -Version: 1.1[H p] -Last-Modified: Mar 16, 2001[H p] +Version: 1.2[H p] +Last-Modified: Apr 4, 2001[H p] Maintained-by: [$maintainer] @@ -642,6 +642,15 @@ in it - why? [H a href=http://bugs.guug.de/Reporting.html] http://bugs.guug.de/Reporting.html[H /a]. +<Q> Why doesn't GnuPG support X509 certificates? + + GnuPG, first and foremost, is an implementation of the OpenPGP + standard (RFC 2440), which is a competing infrastructure, different + from X509. + + They are both public-key cryptosystems, but how the public keys are + actually handled is different. + <S> ADVANCED TOPICS <Q> How does this whole thing work? |