Hi,

> On 2. Jan 2026, at 17:40, Rénich Bon Ćirić <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I think it's important to take this into account: 
> 
> https://gnupg.org/blog/20250117-aheinecke-on-sequoia.html

Quoting: "GnuPG and OpenPGP are extremely mature and basically "done.””

https://gpg.fail/ doesn’t look like it’s very “done” to me.


Sequoia is a major improvement to the usability of OpenPGP — if you’ve ever 
tried to change something about your key (e.g., the expiration date, a user ID, 
algorithm preferences, or any other property) you know the user experience is 
hard to understand for experts and a nightmare for novice users. The blog post 
calls this "inventing new problems and features to justify competition”, I 
don’t agree.


Sequoia is also written in a memory-safe language, outright avoiding some of 
the problems that were reported at gpg.fail. Granted, not all of them. Still, 
out of 14 problems, I think Sequoia is affected by 1 or 2?


Furthermore, sequoia can be used as a library embedded in other software. For 
GnuPG, there was only gpgme, which forked and executed the gpg command line 
tool.


I guess my point here is: Please read both sides of the schism between IETF 
OpenPGP and LibrePGP before choosing sides.

-- 
Clemens Lang
RHEL Crypto Team
Red Hat

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