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    [–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    PGP? Surely you mean GnuPG.

    [–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    (Open)PGP is the protocol, GPG is just one application that implements it.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Right. OpenPGP is the protocol. PGP is the original app, which predates the spec.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    Did you actually have to acksually this though? Every mom and their cat simply calls it pgp

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    PGP is a different piece of software though. Would you refer to Firefox as "Chrome" because both of them can use the same protocol (HTTP)?

    This reminds me of my parents referring to every games console as a "PlayStation" lol

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

    Except PGP is a substring of the 'technically correct' term. It's like someone saying you're playing on your Nintendo - "Um, actually it's a Nintendo 64."

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Those names get really really confusing. I used GPG to use a PGP key. I get mixed up too much.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

    I have little trouble myself but I have an “advantage”:

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, you're right. Who thought that it was a good idea to name two things that mean a similar thing PGP and GPG? It is so easy to use the wrong one..

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I try to keep things simple by only using GGG or PPP.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Gnu's Not GnuPGP

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

    more like GPG's not PGP

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

    Pretty Good Privacy (proprietary original)

    GNU Privacy Guard (open source clone)

    OpenPGP is the shared spec

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

    Oh not this again... 😂