A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates” (opens in new tab)

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180 pointsAlbertVAustin2y ago9 comments

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A Schism in the OpenPGP World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38554393 - Dec 2023 (12 comments)

dang2y ago

Comments moved thither. Thanks!

The lwn.net article linked in this post has an excellent, seemingly neutral summary of the issue that casts a lot of light on TFA; I highly recommend anybody interested in the OpenPGP schism read this.

freedomben2y ago

direct link to the lwn.net article: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/953797/7222cd75661fb888/

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Phelinofist2y ago

Who wrote this? I see no author note. I'm far from an expert in this, so how good are the counter arguments really?

dhx2y ago

This was my first thought too because the argument is against a FSF-award-winning founder and maintainer of 25 years of one of the most important and widely used cryptographic libraries.

The blog appears to be at least hosted by, and possibly written by Andrew Gallagher[1] <andrewg@andrewg.com> per [2], [3] and [4]. Is there meant to be someone else behind the "we"?

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/andrewg@andrewg.com

[2] https://pgpkeys.eu/#about

[3] https://pgpkeys.eu/pks/lookup?op=stats

[4] https://pgpkeys.eu/pks/lookup?op=index&fingerprint=on&search...

lapinot2y ago

There have been some tensions between some sequoia-pgp devs and Koch (which are mentioned in tfa). So it might also be some of them. I don't know anything first hand tho.

beeboobaa2y ago

https://github.com/pgpkeys-eu/pgpkeys-eu.github.io/commit/d5...

https://github.com/andrewgdotcom

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