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

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Sat, 02 July 2016 15:09 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>, Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>
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Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> writes:

>I have wanted this for a long time. there are actually three separate
>problems to be solved.
>
>1) How to make S/MIME work with OpenPGP credentials
>
>2) How to make OpenPGP work with S/MIME credentials
>
>3) How to merge the two specifications into one.

The first two are pretty easy, I've been doing that for years.  For S/MIME,
use the subjectKeyIdentifier form of the key ID.  For PGP, use an
issuerAndSerialNumber in a type-and-value subpacket.

The third is impossible.  While at an abstract level PGP and S/MIME do the
same thing, the bit-bagging formats used to encode the abstraction are
completely incompatible.  You can't make them compatible without either moving
S/MIME to the PGP format or PGP to the S/MIME format.  I can't see either of
those happening...

Peter.

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