go-crypto

Fork of go/x/crypto, providing an up-to-date OpenPGP implementation (by ProtonMail)

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  • OpenPGP Forked into "LibrePGP" by GnuPG's Maintainer Werner Koch
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2023
    > 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

  • Updated Proton, Unified Protection
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 May 2022
    Kudos for taking the baton and maintaining https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto which should replace Keybase's fork everywhere. Terraform and providers such as AWS now use it instead.
  • x/crypto/openpgp is frozen and deprecated
    3 projects | /r/golang | 29 Mar 2021
    Their replacement for x/crypto/openpgp is here: https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto
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ProtonMail/go-crypto is an open source project licensed under BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of go-crypto is Go.


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