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minus-square@Hawkelink44•1 month ago(Open)PGP is the protocol, GPG is just one application that implements it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•1 month agoRight. OpenPGP is the protocol. PGP is the original app, which predates the spec.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-21 month agoDid you actually have to acksually this though? Every mom and their cat simply calls it pgp
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•edit-21 month agoPGP 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
minus-square Morphit linkfedilink2•1 month agoExcept 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.”
minus-squareXylightlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 month agoThose names get really really confusing. I used GPG to use a PGP key. I get mixed up too much.
(Open)PGP is the protocol, GPG is just one application that implements it.
Right. OpenPGP is the protocol. PGP is the original app, which predates the spec.
Did you actually have to acksually this though? Every mom and their cat simply calls it pgp
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
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.”
Those names get really really confusing. I used GPG to use a PGP key. I get mixed up too much.
I have little trouble myself but I have an “advantage”: