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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 months ago

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