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Re: [openpgp] saltpack on OpenPGP message format problems

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Fri, 12 February 2016 15:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] saltpack on OpenPGP message format problems
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:51, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz said:

> I dunno because that's not my area of expertise, but somehow every other
> software mechanism in existence has managed to get by without needing its own
> custom "ASCII armoring" (is there anything other than PGP that does this?), so

X.509 and OpenSSL private key format is basically the same - except for
the armor checksum.  You also need that PEM format to paste a CSR into a
CA's web form.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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