At the time PGP was created, there were a LOT of things that PGP
could offer than X.509 could not. To name a few:
- PGP certificates are MUCH smaller than X.509 in terms of
the number
of bytes required to represent the same semantic content.
If you see this as an important advantage, I can't understand why
still nobody is iteressted in integrating elliptic curves into the
openPGP standard (as I proposed in last august, you may find it at:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-scherkl-openpgp-ecc-00.txt).
This Draft is now expired, but I still want it to become part
of openPGP.
PS: my mail-account has changed:
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Dominikus Scherkl
Mail: dominikusscherkl(_at_)glueckkanja(_dot_)com