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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>2017-06-16 10:21:10 +0200
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>2017-06-16 15:31:51 +0200
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doc: removed references to openpgp
Signed-off-by: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>
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@cindex OpenPGP certificates
Previous versions of GnuTLS supported limited @acronym{OpenPGP} key
-authentication. That functionality has been deprecated and although
-is still made available, it is no longer recommended to use.
-The reason is that, supporting alternative authentication
-methods, when X.509 and PKIX were new and not well established, seemed like a
-good idea, in today's internet X.509 is unquestionably the main
+authentication. That functionality has been deprecated and is no longer
+made available. The reason is that, supporting alternative authentication
+methods, when X.509 and PKIX were new on the Internet and not well established, seemed like a
+good idea, in today's Internet X.509 is unquestionably the main
container for certificates. As such supporting more options with no clear
use-cases, is a distraction that consumes considerable resources for
-improving and testing. For that we have decided to mark this functionality
-as deprecated, and will be dropped in one of the next GnuTLS major releases.
+improving and testing the library. For that we have decided to drop
+this functionality completely in 3.6.0.
@node Advanced certificate verification