hko, 1 day ago to random

30 years ago today, #PGP 2.6 was released via MIT.

Up to this point, two major issues had been unresolved: The legal status of the use of RSA in PGP, and export of the software from the US to the rest of the world.

With the release of PGP 2.6, the first of these two issues was resolved.

The pre-history of #OpenPGP, #gpg, #gnupg is hard to imagine, today. Even though variations of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars remain a (tiringly) recurring political battle ground, three decades later.

hko, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to rust

Meet oct-git, a new #OpenPGP signing and verification tool for use with the #Git distributed version control system:

https://crates.io/crates/openpgp-card-tool-git 🦀

oct-git focuses exclusively on ergonomic use with OpenPGP card-based signing keys

It is designed to be easy to set up, standalone (no long running processes), and entirely hands-off to use (no repeated PIN entry required, by default). It comes with desktop notifications for touch confirmation (if required)

#RustLang #PGP #GnuPG #gpg #Nitrokey #YubiKey

hko, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago) to rust

I just released version 0.3.1 of https://crates.io/crates/rsop, a stateless #OpenPGP ("sop") card tool based on #rPGP.
rsop natively supports OpenPGP card (hardware cryptography) devices

SOP is a standardized, vendor agnostic, CLI interface for the most common OpenPGP operations.
See https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dkg-openpgp-stateless-cli/ for more on SOP.

rsop is featured in the "OpenPGP interoperability test suite" at https://tests.sequoia-pgp.org/ (under "rpgpie", which is rsop's high level OpenPGP library).

#PGP #GPG #GnuPG #rustlang