A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates”

Post by AlbertVAustin » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 10:33 AM UTC

Post by arp242 » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 2:53 PM UTC

Post by lapinot » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 3:08 PM UTC

dhx wrote: post #4

Phelinofist wrote: post #2

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] 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://p…

Post by freedomben » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 3:36 PM UTC

ericbarrett wrote: post #6

arp242 wrote: post #3

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.

Post by beeboobaa » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 6:46 PM UTC

Phelinofist wrote: post #2

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