[HN Gopher] Sequoia PGP is looking for sq stakeholders
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       Sequoia PGP is looking for sq stakeholders
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2022-02-01 14:21 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (sequoia-pgp.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (sequoia-pgp.org)
        
       | mfer wrote:
       | I want to give them props for doing this. Some of the successful
       | projects I've worked on talked with people, outside of issue
       | queues and slack, to understand their needs. It worked out well
       | in crafting _useful_ solutions.
        
       | egberts1 wrote:
       | Wish I knew what sq adds to the existing gnupg suite.
        
         | encryptluks2 wrote:
         | They say on their website what they believe they add, but
         | unfortunately right now it still isn't in a stage to replace
         | GnuPG. I will say trying to automate GnuPG key management sucks
         | right now, so at least Sequoia might be able to get the DevOps
         | crowd.
        
         | pzduniak wrote:
         | The only way to programmatically interact with GnuPG is through
         | spawning the CLI. Not good.
        
           | egberts1 wrote:
           | Best summarization evah!
        
           | sreevisakh wrote:
           | What's wrong with gpgme?
        
             | tptacek wrote:
             | It's thousands of lines of C code that just wraps an actual
             | execution of the `gpg` binary?
        
               | upofadown wrote:
               | That sounds like a lot of pointless work. I had a quick
               | look and could not find anything about that. Do you have
               | a reference?
        
         | franknord23 wrote:
         | It can encrypt for expired keys.
        
           | woodruffw wrote:
           | I might be missing a legitimate use case, but that doesn't
           | seem like a good thing in general.
        
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