Re: Encryption

From: Thilo Bangert (thilo.bangert@gmx.net)
Date: 01/15/02 

From: Thilo Bangert <thilo.bangert@gmx.net>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:54:23 +0100

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

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