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[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

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

[-] dan@upvote.au 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] magi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 2 points 1 month 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 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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