GnuPG
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
5warn against
Nov 13, 2025first mention
Oct 21, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“verifies signatures with GnuPG, which means there's no password hash in the database to leak”
builds web projectson “Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)”
“I use GnuPG daily and mandate that everyone in our organization do the same.”
runs onboarding for an organizationon “The Future of Email”
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“I still use it a lot especially with the private keys on openpgp smartcards or yubikeys.”
Caveats and dissent
“I have found handling them to be a pain.”
“I feel a bit uneasy about entrusting my security to that mess.”
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“this post mainly covers a gpg problem not a PGP problem.”
“gnupg2 is one of the worst user-hostile pieces of CLI software”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID 1 mention
- Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999) 1 mention
- The Future of Email 1 mention
- GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline 1 mention
- Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes 1 mention
- The PGP Problem (2019) 1 mention
Data: gnupg.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“I have found handling them to be a pain.”
“verifies signatures with GnuPG, which means there's no password hash in the database to leak”
“I use GnuPG daily and mandate that everyone in our organization do the same.”
“I feel a bit uneasy about entrusting my security to that mess.”
“We use GPG'd files that are ingested during environment setup”
“this post mainly covers a gpg problem not a PGP problem.”
“I still use it a lot especially with the private keys on openpgp smartcards or yubikeys.”
“Pass encrypts all these files via gpg, for which I use a key stored on a Yubikey.”
“gnupg2 is one of the worst user-hostile pieces of CLI software”
“Ignore GnuPG which is a shit show stuck in the 90s.”