[Cryptography] Future GPG/PGP

Ron Garret ron at flownet.com
Wed Sep 30 02:01:58 EDT 2015


On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:45 PM, Nicolai <nicolai-crypto at chocolatine.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 07:38:05PM -0500, phm wrote:
>> What, if any, efforts have been initiated to replace GPG? I'm very
>> interested to know.
> 
> For signatures, a few projects (including OpenBSD) are using signify,
> which uses the Ed25519 signature system.  It's really nice!
> 
> I'm not aware of any encryption software with similar usage/deployment,
> although I've heard of reop, CPGB, sgp-c and others.  SC4 was also
> mentioned in this thread.  All the interesting ones are based on NaCl.

And just FYI, SC4 also does Ed25519 signatures.

rg



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