OpenPGP Forked into "LibrePGP" by GnuPG's Maintainer Werner Koch

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  • age

    A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

  • > something fresh

    It exists, it's called age..

    Some random links

    https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

    https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/hr64hr/state_of_age...

    https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/discussions/432

    > (Acquiring keys, rotating keys, identifying compromised keys, and most importantly either reaches a large enough percentage of emails..

    Oh nevermind, age doesn't do any of that. Indeed, it doesn't even do email https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/93

  • FairEmail

    Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android

  • I'm using FairEmail [0] as a client on Android which supports PGP and i am quite happy with it.

    [0] https://email.faircode.eu/

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  • go-crypto

    Fork of go/x/crypto, providing an up-to-date OpenPGP implementation

  • > One camp (Open) wants to move faster and break backward compatibility, the other (Libre) wants to move slower and maintain backwards compatibility

    There is no breaking of backward compatibility. The crypto-refresh draft and the LibrePGP draft are equally backward-compatible.

    See 'A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates”':

    * https://blog.pgpkeys.eu/critique-critique

    Both groups would create a new format (Libre = v5; crypto-refresh = v6), and both would support the v4. The Proton folks are choosing to support both v5 and v6:

    * https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto/pull/182

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