Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situation be fixed?

*queue n+1 competing standards xkcd

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On 3 July 2016 02:24:04 CEST, Phillip Hallam-Baker 
<phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Peter Gutmann
> <pgut001(_at_)cs(_dot_)auckland(_dot_)ac(_dot_)nz>
> wrote:
>
> > Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com> writes:
> >
> > > I have wanted this for a long time. there are actually three
> separate
> > > problems to be solved.
> > >
> > > 1) How to make S/MIME work with OpenPGP credentials
> > >
> > > 2) How to make OpenPGP work with S/MIME credentials
> > >
> > > 3) How to merge the two specifications into one.
> > The first two are pretty easy, I've been doing that for years.  For
> S/MIME,
> > use the subjectKeyIdentifier form of the key ID.  For PGP, use an
> > issuerAndSerialNumber in a type-and-value subpacket.
> >
> > The third is impossible.  While at an abstract level PGP and S/MIME
> do the
> > same thing, the bit-bagging formats used to encode the abstraction
> are
> > completely incompatible.  You can't make them compatible without
> either
> > moving
> > S/MIME to the PGP format or PGP to the S/MIME format.  I can't see
> either
> > of
> > those happening...
>
> ​
> That would clearly be impossible if it was what was being proposed.
>
> What I am suggesting is rather different, A new application for
> managing
> encrypted content, Word, Powerpoint, PDF, etc. that has crypto designed
> into the metal and also provides a messaging capability.
>
> I am suggesting Blu Ray, not trying to develop adapters to play VHS on
> Betamax.
> ​

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