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woodruffwyesterday at 6:13 PM3 repliesview on HN

This feels pretty unsatisfying: something that’s been “considered harmful” for three decades should be deprecated and then removed in a responsible ecosystem.

(PGP/GPG are of course hamstrung by their own decision to be a Swiss Army knife/only loosely coupled to the secure operation itself. So the even more responsible thing to do is to discard them for purposes that they can’t offer security properties for, which is the vast majority of things they get used for.)


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LtWorfyesterday at 6:25 PM

Well python discarded signing entirely so that's one way to solve it :)

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cpachyesterday at 6:34 PM

GPG is indeed deprecated.

Most people have never heard of it and never used it.

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