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[-] dan@upvote.au 36 points 3 months ago

PGP? Surely you mean GnuPG.

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

(Open)PGP is the protocol, GPG is just one application that implements it.

[-] dan@upvote.au 8 points 3 months ago

Right. OpenPGP is the protocol. PGP is the original app, which predates the spec.

[-] magi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Did you actually have to acksually this though? Every mom and their cat simply calls it pgp

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Morphit@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

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."

[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 4 points 3 months ago

Those names get really really confusing. I used GPG to use a PGP key. I get mixed up too much.

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I have little trouble myself but I have an “advantage”:

[-] shoki@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Yeah, you're right. Who thought that it was a good idea to name two things that mean a similar thing PGP and GPG? It is so easy to use the wrong one..

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I try to keep things simple by only using GGG or PPP.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Gnu's Not GnuPGP

[-] shoki@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

more like GPG's not PGP

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago

Pretty Good Privacy (proprietary original)

GNU Privacy Guard (open source clone)

OpenPGP is the shared spec

[-] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Oh not this again... 😂

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