A New Future for GnuPG
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A New Future for GnuPG
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Re: A New Future for GnuPG
#2duplicate to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29775420
Re: A New Future for GnuPG
#3duplicate to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29775420
That post hardly generated any attention (2 comments). But there was a substantial discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29714752
Re: A New Future for GnuPG
#4I'm gonna keep this. A good example of how a government bid for an open-source development is having an outsized impact. Ironically, it happened as the gov were switching away from Linux to windows.
Where I am, so much of the government money is wasted on code that ends up nowhere. Neither in the hands of the public nor where it's supposed to go
Re: A New Future for GnuPG
#5They partnered with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohde_%26_Schwarz - so basically GnuPG is now funded by military auxiliaries…
Re: A New Future for GnuPG
#6They partnered with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohde_%26_Schwarz - so basically GnuPG is now funded by military auxiliaries…
Vote with your wallet.
Re: A New Future for GnuPG
#7They partnered with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohde_%26_Schwarz - so basically GnuPG is now funded by military auxiliaries…
It's not funded by Rohde&Schwarz. Probably they partnered because both products are used by German governmental agencies and have to work together.
Re: A New Future for GnuPG
#8I did notice that many GPG implementations (for email) are Germany based. Interesting. Also, I hope other government will start to offer their public keys as a means for encrypted submission of sensitive documents.
Re: A New Future for GnuPG
#9> We were not aware how many different governmental agencies exist and how many of them have a need to protect data
Hmm :-)