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schism status

Posted May 23, 2026 18:52 UTC (Sat) by hailfinger (subscriber, #76962)
In reply to: schism status by heiko
Parent article: The tenth OpenPGP email summit

Various government agencies also have positioned themselves on the side of the OpenPGP process at the IETF.

See for example the technical guideline BSI TR-03116-4 from the German Federal Office for Information Security, specifying cryptographic requirements for federal government use. For PGP, the following sentence applies:
> PGP muss in der standardisierten Version OpenPGP konform zu RFC 9580 [44] verwendet werden.
This roughly translates to:
> PGP must be used in the OpenPGP version conforming to RFC 9580.
And yes, that "must" is a hard absolute requirement.

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Posted May 23, 2026 21:58 UTC (Sat) by gioele (subscriber, #61675) [Link]

> See for example the technical guideline BSI TR-03116-4 from the German Federal Office for Information Security, specifying cryptographic requirements for federal government use. For PGP, the following sentence applies:
>
>> PGP muss in der standardisierten Version OpenPGP konform zu RFC 9580 [44] verwendet werden.
>
> This roughly translates to:
>
>> PGP must be used in the OpenPGP version conforming to RFC 9580.

Which is fun, considering that g10 Code/GnuPG's main source of income are most likely various branches of the German government (with GPG4Win and VS-Desktop).