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| author | Werner Koch <[email protected]> | 2010-02-11 11:30:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Werner Koch <[email protected]> | 2010-02-11 11:30:07 +0000 |
| commit | 299aeda4b0ce8969baedef3772b452ced6da631a (patch) | |
| tree | c84db9fa8310e6a0d1ece06291ed897bc925e4c0 /doc/faq.raw | |
| parent | Various changes to eventually support openpgp keys in pgp-agent. (diff) | |
| download | gnupg-299aeda4b0ce8969baedef3772b452ced6da631a.tar.gz gnupg-299aeda4b0ce8969baedef3772b452ced6da631a.zip | |
Link to the bug tracker in the gpg man page.
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diff --git a/doc/faq.raw b/doc/faq.raw index 640beee90..0e4502773 100644 --- a/doc/faq.raw +++ b/doc/faq.raw @@ -1033,12 +1033,8 @@ you could search in the mailing list archive. <Q> Why doesn't GnuPG support X.509 certificates? - GnuPG, first and foremost, is an implementation of the OpenPGP - standard (RFC 2440), which is a competing infrastructure, different - from X.509. - - They are both public-key cryptosystems, but how the public keys are - actually handled is different. + That is only the case for GnuPG version 1.x. GnuPG 2.x fully + supports X.509 and S/MIME using the gpgsm tool. <Q> Why do national characters in my user ID look funny? |