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minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up44·1年前(Open)PGP is the protocol, GPG is just one application that implements it.
minus-squaredanAlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1年前Right. OpenPGP is the protocol. PGP is the original app, which predates the spec.
minus-squaremagi@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-21年前Did you actually have to acksually this though? Every mom and their cat simply calls it pgp
minus-squaredanAlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21年前PGP is a different piece of software though. Would you refer to Firefox as “Chrome” because both of them can use the same protocol (HTTP)? This reminds me of my parents referring to every games console as a “PlayStation” lol
minus-square Morphit @feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1年前Except PGP is a substring of the ‘technically correct’ term. It’s like someone saying you’re playing on your Nintendo - “Um, actually it’s a Nintendo 64.”
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1年前I have little trouble myself but I have an “advantage”:
(Open)PGP is the protocol, GPG is just one application that implements it.
Right. OpenPGP is the protocol. PGP is the original app, which predates the spec.
Did you actually have to acksually this though? Every mom and their cat simply calls it pgp
PGP is a different piece of software though. Would you refer to Firefox as “Chrome” because both of them can use the same protocol (HTTP)?
This reminds me of my parents referring to every games console as a “PlayStation” lol
Except PGP is a substring of the ‘technically correct’ term. It’s like someone saying you’re playing on your Nintendo - “Um, actually it’s a Nintendo 64.”
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I have little trouble myself but I have an “advantage”: