On 4 February 2014 15:47, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> On 02/04/2014 09:01 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > > Having said that, you might look at how OpenSSH has included X.509 > > certificates in its operation. There is precedent for something like > > what you suggest. > > fwiw, the answer here is "they haven't". Roumen Petrov's X.509 patches > remain outside of OpenSSH mainline, and there seems to be very little > chance for upstream adoption. Some distributions may include those > patches, but not all of them, and upstream has held the line against > them, even implementing their own certificate format instead of adopting > X.509. > Any reason why this might be? FWIW: I have converted my RSA GPG key into a self signed X.509 certificate, which I display on my homepage. Although there's no official web or trust, it has links in, and links out, to other people's identities (and keys) forming a mini WOT, in the same sense that a search engine might use links in and links out as a social signal. > > --dkg > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > >
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