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Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situation be fixed?

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Mon, 04 July 2016 03:41 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, Hanno Böck <hanno@hboeck.de>, IETF OpenPGP <openpgp@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situation be fixed?
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:

>I think we should be clear about what it would take to do what you're
>proposing; there are two main angles:
>
>* certificate interoperability (OpenPGP certs vs. X.509 certs)

This is easily solved in a technical spec, just define (to use the approach
I've been using in my code, which as worked more or less seamlessy for some
years), the use of sKID for S/MIME and issuerAndSerialNumber for PGP.

>* message interoperability (PGP/MIME vs. S/MIME)

This can't be solved by a technical spec, it's an application issue which you
resolve by e.g. writing a PGP plugin for Outlook.

Peter.

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