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PGP? Surely you mean GnuPG.
(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."
Those names get really really confusing. I used GPG to use a PGP key. I get mixed up too much.
I have little trouble myself but I have an “advantage”:
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..
I try to keep things simple by only using GGG or PPP.
Gnu's Not GnuPGP
more like GPG's not PGP
Pretty Good Privacy (proprietary original)
GNU Privacy Guard (open source clone)
OpenPGP is the shared spec
Oh not this again... 😂