Open jiansoung opened 5 years ago
Pretty Good Privacy is proprietary software and was originally written by Phil Zimmerman in 1991.
OpenPGP is a protocol. (RFC 4880)
GNU Privacy Guard, also known as GnuPG and GPG, is the Free Software Foundation’s implementation (licensed under GNU Public Licence v3) of the OpenPGP protocol, written almost entirely by Werner Koch.
“GPG Key” is a key that specific to GnuPG. “OpenPGP Key” is the right common name.
GPG, GnuPG, PGP and OpenPGP
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
Pretty Good Privacy is proprietary software and was originally written by Phil Zimmerman in 1991.
OpenPGP
OpenPGP is a protocol. (RFC 4880)
GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG / GPG)
GNU Privacy Guard, also known as GnuPG and GPG, is the Free Software Foundation’s implementation (licensed under GNU Public Licence v3) of the OpenPGP protocol, written almost entirely by Werner Koch.
What to call my key?
“GPG Key” is a key that specific to GnuPG. “OpenPGP Key” is the right common name.
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