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

        • @[email protected]
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          Did you actually have to acksually this though? Every mom and their cat simply calls it pgp

          • @[email protected]
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            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

            • Morphit
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              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.”

      • Xylight
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        44 months ago

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

        • @Hawke
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          44 months ago

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

    • @shokiOP
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      184 months ago

      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…

      • Pennomi
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        124 months ago

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

          • @shokiOP
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            34 months ago

            more like GPG’s not PGP

      • Natanael
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        Pretty Good Privacy (proprietary original)

        GNU Privacy Guard (open source clone)

        OpenPGP is the shared spec