PGP and GnuPG specifications

[Andrew Gallagher]

On 7 May 2026, at 15:19, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
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> On Thu,  7 May 2026 14:13, Andrew Gallagher said:
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>> That’s fair when you are taking a once-proprietary protocol and
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> Actually, it was never proprietary.  PRZ feared that by a future
> acquisation the new owner could close the source code and thus limit
> good privicay for evertone.  This is why he wanted to have an open
> specification

I used “proprietary” in the sense of “controlled by a single person/org”, so we are in agreement here.

Proprietary as in .docx, not as in Coke; if you will.

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