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[Alphax]

Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>Zeljko Vrba wrote:
>>
>>>Joe Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>>For example, your CA can revoke your key leaving you with one key that
>>>>is invalid X.509, but valid OpenPGP? Yuck!
>>>>
>>>
>>>Using the X.509 cert and OpenPGP public key (having the same private
>>>key) could be useful in the following scenario:
>>
>>Is that even allowed??
> 
> 
> SPENGLER (emphatic): Don't cross PGP and X.509. 
> 
> VENKMAN: Why not? 
> 
> SPENGLER: Trust me. It will be bad. 
> 
> VENKMAN: What do you mean "bad?" 
> 
> SPENGLER: It's hard to explain, but try to imagine Werner appearing suddenly
> and beating you to death with a large copy of the GNU manifesto.
> 
> VENKMAN (with military authority): That's it! No X.509. You guys are
> dangerous.
> 

Wait, where's Richard Stallman in all of this? :)

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