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   John McCue to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: OpenPGP Versus GnuPG   
   24 Jun 25 01:42:50   
   
   From: jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   > It seems the developers of GnuPG are starting to diverge from the OpenPGP   
   > standard, and go their own, incompatible way. I got notes about this from   
   > the last few upgrades of my Debian Unstable systems, and so searching   
   > about online led me (yet again) to the ever-dependable ArchLinux Wiki   
   > , which has a section on “OpenPGP   
   > compatibility”, with links to more details about the schism.   
   >   
   > So the Debian folks seem reluctant to go along with this, and they’re not   
   > the only ones.   
      
   I wonder how many people is still on OpenPGP ?  *BSD and   
   Linux both use GnuPG.  Also Thunderbird rolled their own   
   a few years ago, AFAIK Thunderbird lets you import GnuPG   
   keys into their version.   
      
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