Post #2814548

2026-04-24 19:07 UTC

Also see https://chaos.social/@dvzrv/116460347482223544 It would appear that GnuPG upstream is trying to use its influence to create facts on the ground (by proliferation of its proprietary non-OpenPGP formats).

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@hko@floss.social 2026-04-24 19:12

GnuPG exists for one sole reason: The original PGP crew in the 1990s decided that open standards, collaboration and multiple implementations are cool. So they published their - at the time groundbreaking - formats, and standardized them at the IETF. GnuPG has benefited massively from this, while at the same time being a software that no one I know has ever truly enjoyed. I certainly have not. This project is now attempting to do a standardization rug pull. It's ridiculous and enraging.

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@giacomo@snac.tesio.it 2026-04-25 06:30

@hko@floss.social Wait, "proprietary format"? #GnuPG is #FreeSoftware, so even if it use an original format, how can it qualified as "proprietary"? Any patent? Some dynamic linking trick? Also, did you asked the authors about their choices? In the past, I've seen lot of politics around (against) gnupg, and whenever I got deeper, I've found their reason rock-solid from a technical/security perspective (even for retrocompatibility support).

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