• A sapling matures: meet sq 1.0

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Mon Dec 16 22:00:05 2024
    A sapling matures: meet sq 1.0

    Date:
    Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:58:29 +0000

    Description:
    The Sequoia PGP project has announced version 1.0 of the sq command-line tool for managing OpenPGP
    encryption and signatures. It also provides a decentralized public
    key infrastructure (PKI), and key management facilities. This is
    the first stable release since development began on the project in
    2017. sq 's PKI is probably its most notable feature, and the one we invested the most time in. The PKI is used to authenticate certificates, and
    messages. Authentication is necessary to ensure that you are
    encrypting to the person you think you are, and to identify who really
    authored a message; without authentication, encryption and
    verification are much weaker.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1002411/


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