On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 03:51:05PM +0000, Matt Willsher wrote: > My point is rather: why not just use X.509 keys and certs and why use > GPG/PGP at all? X.509 is multi purpose, well adopted and well trusted. One reason is that OpenPGP peer certification is less messy than X.509 mesh PKI. I believe that this is why the Monkeysphere[0] project relies on GnuPG. [0] http://web.monkeysphere.info/