-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > Werner Koch wrote: [...] >>> you have a problem only with PKCS#11... >>> >> >> >> Because it is such an ugly "standard" [the quotes are on purpose]. >> >> > I am sorry to read that... I think it is a good standard... Just like > any RSA Security > PKCS#* standard... at least it is a standard that most programmers agree > on... > I don't understand why you guys did not rewritten the PKCS#7, PKCS#1, > PKCS#8, PKCS#9 > standards... And maybe to stay with PGP standard and not migrating to > S/MIME... > The whole new work of gpg 1.9 was to migrate to S/MIME... Why!?!?!?! > You could have been very happy in your close PGP format world. > Even if the standards are ugly, they at least work!
I think this is a misunderstanding. gpg 1.9 is not about _migration_ to S/MIME, it's about _adding_ S/MIME to gpg. There is no reason why gpg 2.0 would not support OpenPGP. What is true, though, is that so far, gpg 1.9 was only about adding S/MIME to gpg. But AFAIK it is the goal to merge gpg 1.4 with gpg 1.9. >>> When user buys it's email signature/encryption certificate he expects >>> to be >>> able to use it in >>> all smartcard enable applications... PKCS#11 provides this ability, >>> and is >>> >> >> >> Yes he expects this and will soon see that it was just an expectation. >> >> > I am afraid you are totally wrong here... I hope you will wake up > some-day... > I am responsible of replacing software/suggest correct software for > using smartcards. > Currently gpg is on my black list... And because of this I tried to talk > with you first to make > you understand what you do wrong... > It seems that I've failed! > You don't understand or don't want to understand what the user expects, > so you fail to > provide it. > >>> Yes, I know that I can write my own agent... But I still think it >>> will be a >>> mistake. >>> >> >> I don't meant to write another agent. Write a pkcs#11 driver which >> uses gpg-agent as its token. >> >> > This is the WRONG WRONG WRONG approach!!!!!!! Why? The _only_ purpose of gpg-agent is to ask you for a password and to keep that password in memory. You could use gpg-agent for _any_ application that requires a password. - -Patrick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDGFxq2KgHx8zsInsRAnLtAKCjMa79eIC7lrpJJvr+ZMl8Xt+AqQCeI9Ur 0bVPspo5/6JELGR1fEP6MgI= =kNSw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
