A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates”

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180 points·AlbertVAustin··9 comments

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

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.

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

Thank you for the link, and thanks to lwn.net for the feature!

Comments moved thither. Thanks!

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

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...

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.

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

https://github.com/andrewgdotcom

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