SMIME vs PGP

[Werner Koch]

On Wed,  6 Feb 2008 23:32, alex at bofh.net.pl said:

> GNU Privacy Guard 1.x talks only OpenPGP. GNU Privacy Guard 2.x talks
> OpenPGP and S/MIME, I'm not sure if it talks plain CMS.

GnuPG (gpgsm) support plain CMS and no S/MIME.  S/MIME requires all that
MIME stuff.  It is the same as with OpenPGP vs. PGP/MIME; GnuPG (gpg or
gpg2) does not directly support PGP/MIME.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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