Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-18 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robert J. Hansen escribió: Andre Amorim wrote: X.509 (the standard used by freemail certs) and OpenPGP use the same underlying algorithms, but the protocols are dramatically different. Making them interoperate is hard, and is usually not worth

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-18 Thread arghman
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Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-18 Thread Robert J. Hansen
arghman wrote: So (and here's where I'm less clear) if I wanted to link the assertions made by my X.509 certificates and my OpenPGP keys, there's no way to automatically do this. But if I were to use the same private/public key in both cases, I can assert to a third party that the entity in

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-18 Thread John Clizbe
Robert J. Hansen wrote: arghman wrote: So (and here's where I'm less clear) if I wanted to link the assertions made by my X.509 certificates and my OpenPGP keys, there's no way to automatically do this. But if I were to use the same private/public key in both cases, I can assert to a third

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-18 Thread Morton D. Trace
arghman wrote: I'm experimenting w/ using the freemail certificates from thawte was just wondering if there is a way I can use them with gpg (openpgp, NOT S/MIME). I can figure out how to use openssl to extract the rsa public key / private key from the exported PKCS12 file, but I'm not sure

using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread arghman
in an overall cryptographic framework. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/using-gpg-with-private-keys-from-openssl-certificates--tp21057804p21057804.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Gnupg-users mailing

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
arghman wrote: * is this a bad idea? It is a _hard_ idea. It is not necessarily a bad or stupid idea. Like most things, whether it's inspired lunacy or just insane depends a lot on your particular problem domain. :) X.509 (the standard used by freemail certs) and OpenPGP use the same

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread arghman
with] is both trustable via Wot, *or* by trusting a certificate authority. trustable probably not the right word but I'm a bit shaky on the protocol vocabulary. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/using-gpg-with-private-keys-from-openssl-certificates--tp21057804p21063072.html Sent from

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
arghman wrote: I don't need them to interoperate, I would just like to use the same key pair. If they're using the same keypair, then they're interoperating. (For at least some definitions of 'interoperability.' Total interoperability is probably infeasible.) What you want to do is very hard

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread Andre Amorim
not the right word but I'm a bit shaky on the protocol vocabulary. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/using-gpg-with-private-keys-from-openssl-certificates--tp21057804p21063072.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Andre Amorim wrote: X.509 (the standard used by freemail certs) and OpenPGP use the same underlying algorithms, but the protocols are dramatically different. Making them interoperate is hard, and is usually not worth it. Robert did you already check this: The paper does not propose a way to

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread Andre Amorim
It's instead proposing something much different, which is unrelated to the original poster's request sorry bob, rigth, I misunderstood what he had said. It is whiskey fault. :-) I'll read it again tom. kind regards, A.A. 2008/12/18 Robert J. Hansen r...@sixdemonbag.org: Andre Amorim wrote:

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 arghman escribió: * if I sign a message with that key pair, and someone challenges my identity, what's the best/easiest way for me to prove my identity? I don't need them to interoperate, I would just like to use the same key pair. WoT is fine