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1. Unfortunately, the draft is progressing much slower than many people would like. This is partially because not all parties agree on the best way forward for a number of technica…

Not yet, but it is on the road map!

Sequoia does not (yet) have feature parity with GnuPG. Several important components are missing including a public key store. In GnuPG, the public key store is mandatory. In our di…

Sequoia consists of a number of components. There is the low-level crate. We released version 1.0 of that in Dec. 2020. There is sq, the CLI tool. We released that a few weeks ago.…

Right. The sq cli does not have an subcommand to add new subkeys to an existing certificate. But it can use such certificates, and when it generates a certificate, it, by default, …

I think you've misunderstood something. sq has no problem generating certificates with subkeys. Here's the default structure. Notice that we actually include a separate signing sub…

We've been considering this, but we'd rather have people use the library. We already have the start of a Python interface, which is pretty easy to use, IMHO. But, I suspect that so…

What would make a friendly interface in your opinion? The sq frontend uses git style subcommands to clearly separate actions from options. This is something that gpg doesn't do too…

Let's go through Matt's major points: Key Exchange / Key Management This isn't really a problem with the OpenPGP protocol or an OpenPGP implementation. This is inherent to any syst…

While at the Delta X gather last week, we recorded an introduction to Sequoia. The presentation covers our motivation for starting the project, an overview of Sequoia’s architectur…