Hushmail public keys broken?

[SouthBarbarian]

I think hushmail's certificates is a proprietary format and not x.509, isn't
it?

"Lee B." <n...@spam.invalid> 撰寫於郵件新聞
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> Lee B. wrote on 04 Oct 2002:
>
> > Have any of you tried to encrypt to a public key retrieved from
> > www.hushtools.com?
> >
> > Seems it doesn't work. The keys don't appear to have the email address
> > in them. The email address does appear, but as the user name, not in
> > brackets
> ><> as the email address. When trying to encrypt to the key you get
> >"Public
> > key not found" errors.
> >
> > Is this a known problem?
> > Anyone know a fix?
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> Turns out this is an incompatibility using Enigmail/GnuPG/Mozilla with
> hushmail certificates.
>
> Enigmail can't find the public keys for hushmail users.
>
> --
> Lee B.
>

[Al.]

Investigating a similar problem recently, I came to the conclusion that
although Hushmail claims to be Open PGP compliant (rather than X.509), it
isn't quite.

The one that stymied me was that although RFC2440 says that OpenPGP
compliant clients _must_ implement 3DES as one of their symmetric
algorithms, Hushmail doesn't.

That said, Hushmail keys do work perfectly well with some PGP clients,
provided you don't have all the features locked out.

A.

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[Al.]

Investigating a similar problem recently, I came to the conclusion that
although Hushmail claims to be Open PGP compliant (rather than X.509), it
isn't quite.

The one that stymied me was that although RFC2440 says that OpenPGP
compliant clients _must_ implement 3DES as one of their symmetric
algorithms, Hushmail doesn't.

That said, Hushmail keys do work perfectly well with some PGP clients,
provided you don't have all the features locked out.

A.

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