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by forgotmypw17 1823 days ago
GPG-PGP works well,

has tooling on pretty much every platform,

is a mature, well-established product.

The complicated features are optional.

Using something like age, with one reference implementation in Go, not supported by most languages, nor time-tested, is just asking for trouble, like surprise exploits or bitrot making your data unusable.

I am perplexed by the frequency of "PGP/GPG is old, let's replace it with something new and untested" posts on HN...

In software development, OLD is GOOD.

(As a side note, I don't think Debian has been at the forefront of rational decisionmaking for a while, so I wouldn't watch them too closely.)

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Yeah, it’s weird. And it always comes from the same couple of people, with that one obscure hand-wavy blog post.