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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? |