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diff --git a/doc/cha-cert-auth.texi b/doc/cha-cert-auth.texi index a5432f3543..5c106da4f4 100644 --- a/doc/cha-cert-auth.texi +++ b/doc/cha-cert-auth.texi @@ -469,15 +469,14 @@ other verification functions which do not allow setting a purpose, would operate @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 |