[$] Responses to gpg.fail
Date:
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:05:28 +0000
Description:
At the 39th
Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in December, researchers Lexi
Groves ("49016") and Liam Wachter said that they had discovered a
number of flaws in popular implementations of OpenPGP email-encryption standard. They also released an
accompanying web site, gpg.fail , with
descriptions of the discoveries. Most of those
presented were found in GNU Privacy
Guard (GPG), though the pair also discussed problems in age , Minisign , Sequoia , and the OpenPGP
standard (RFC 9580) itself. The discoveries have spurred some interesting discussions and as well as responses from GPG and Sequoia
developers.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1054220/
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