On Mon, 2026-07-20 at 20:48 +0000, CS Sushi Man via devel wrote: > I'm unaware of this consensus, and I'm also unaware of the > implications the decisions made by the OpenPGP WG may have in the > future. Could you tell me the specifics of these protocol changes, > and why LibrePGP is the responsible party? I'd rather have > the criticisms being made by the LibrePGP team *be addressed,* > rather than have them be ignored, and swept under the rug. > > https://gnupg.org/blog/20260320-some-criticism-matter.html > > I'd also like to see what the OpenPGP WG has to say about > LibrePGP, and again, *address* the concerns of the LibrePGP > maintainers. In particular, since you are on the RHEL crypto team, > why don't you lead this discussion?
I have no reason to rehash pubic knowledge, if you are curious you can go here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/openpgp/documents/ and read the documents and the mailing list threads. I am not sure why the link above matters at all. The "LibrePGP maintainers" had a voice in the OpenPGP WG like everyone else. OpenPGP is a standard, the standard is discussed and negotiated and agreed in IETF. GnuPG decided they know better than all other stakeholders but apparently were also not able to convince the other stakeholders that they had better technical arguments. When the WG, through rough consensus decided that the right way to deal with the evolution of the OpenPGP standard did not match exactly what the GnuPG maintainer wanted they decided to isolate themselves and become incompatible with the rest of the world. It is their choice and they are fully free to do that, but that does not mean we need to follow it, or re-litigating their choice over and over. We need to use standards for interoperability, and OpenPGP is a *standard* debated and resolved the proper way within a super-partes body called IETF. LibrePGP can be called a specification, but it is not an interoperable standard governed by a proper standardization body, therefore we can't rely on it going forward. It is that simple. Best, Simo. -- Simo Sorce Distinguished Engineer RHEL Crypto Team Red Hat, Inc -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
