On Monday, 14. January 2002 22:59, you wrote: > I have been doing some experiments between PGP and GPG and as far as > I can tell messages can be transfered easily between the two systems > (current versions at least). The only major difference I found > between to two systesms is that PGP seems to have a more fleshed out > key sharing system. PGP seems to be able to use x.509 (ldap) systems > as well as HTP, email and FTP key server while GPG does not > understand x.509. From a note I found on the GPG site (paraphrased, > as I can't recall the exact wording) "...GPG and x.509 are competing > standards..." so I would not expect it to support x.509 anytime in > the near furture. >
actually: Cebit 2002 funded by the german government! <quote> Rough list of aims: - Plug-In for KMail and Mutt - LDAP support for Certificate Revocation Lists, CRLs - incorporation of sphinx protocols in gpg framework - X.509, PKCS11, PKCS12 and PKCS15 support - parallel support of OpenPGP - LDAP support for KMail address book - All finished for CeBIT 2002, Hannover </quote> have a look at http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/ greetings Thilo
