Sequoia PGP
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I recommend people to spend some time and try out sequoia (sq)”
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“Just to name a few of the projects I work on, use, or find most interesting”
Caveats and dissent
“discovered multiple vulnerabilities in cryptographic utilities, namely in GnuPG, Sequoia PGP, age, and minisign.”
“Sequoia is only used as a library for a few crypto primitives that there are multiple alternatives for now we will be switching to.”
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“That's not a Rust problem, that's a sequoia problem.”
“I really hope they don't replace the audited and battle-tested GnuPG parts with some new-fangled project like that”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Gpg.fail 3 mentions
- Switching from GPG to Age 2 mentions
- Hard Rust requirements from May onward 2 mentions
- Show HN: PGP made convenient (encrypted at rest with passkeys) 1 mention
- I built the best PGP toolset on Chrome 1 mention
- The RCE that AMD won't fix 1 mention
Also written as Sequoia, Sequoia-PGP. Data: sequoia-pgp.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 13
“Uses SequoiaPGP via WASM in rust”
“The Crypto side of this is based off of SequoiaPGP, compiled to WASM.”
“That's why Apt switched to Sequoia.”
“I recommend people to spend some time and try out sequoia (sq)”
“discovered multiple vulnerabilities in cryptographic utilities, namely in GnuPG, Sequoia PGP, age, and minisign.”
“If you haven't checked out sequoia (sq), you should!”
“It's the recommended replacement.”
“The RFC-9580 faction (Sequoia) is following a kind of maximalist approach”
“allegedly sequoia supports openpgp smartcards so I might give it a shot soon”
“Just to name a few of the projects I work on, use, or find most interesting”
“Sequoia is only used as a library for a few crypto primitives that there are multiple alternatives for now we will be switching to.”
“That's not a Rust problem, that's a sequoia problem.”
“I really hope they don't replace the audited and battle-tested GnuPG parts with some new-fangled project like that”