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Yes. Sequoia abstracts over secret-key operations. In fact, the Octopus makes use of keys managed by the gpg-agent using this mechanism. Native support for smart cards and TPMs is …

We over at Sequoia-PGP, which gets a honorable mention by the OP, are not merely trying to create a new OpenPGP implementation, but to rethink the whole ecosystem. For some of our …

No, it has an startup server (helpfully called startup), since 2015: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/tree/NEWS#n86

Meet Moxie Marlinspike, the Anarchist Bringing us yet another cryptographic island with a single point of failure.

Fault isolation. We're doing it for daemons, we're doing it for web browsers, it is insane we're not doing it for operating system services. I bought a graphic tablet and the first…

I know you're just trying to be funny, but I don't think it's funny at all. The Linux kernel undoubtedly many features that the Hurd system lacks, but that is due to the severe lac…

Hurd developer here. I also have high hopes for Guix, and in fact there is a gsoc project to port Guix to the Hurd. Guix tries to empower the user, a goal shared by the Hurd. They …

Hurd developer here. You are spot-on. The Hurd solves a problem today that Linux (and all the other monolithic systems) will never solve: Fault containment.