Sequoia PGP, sq, gpg-from-sq, v6 OpenPGP, and Debian

Speaker: Justus Winter

Track: Security

Type: Long talk (45 minutes)

Room: Somin

Time: Jul 30 (Tue): 11:00

Duration: 0:45

It has been two years since my last DebConf talk on Sequoia, and two years being a small eternity in our fast-paced world, I want to revisit where we are, and where we are going to.

Notably, work on our main command-line frontend sq has picked up pace and we are polishing it for a 1.0 release; the IETF OpenPGP working group has concluded with RFC 9580 about to be published (hopefully in time for this talk), has been re-chartered, and is considering new work (notably post-quantum cryptography); you can apt install gpg-from-sq to seamlessly replace GnuPG with Sequoia’s reimplementation; and a lot of the packaging and software-supply-chain infrastructure in various distributions (including, but not limited to Debian) is being converted to (also be able) use Sequoia.

If you work on Debian or any other Linux distribution, are a software developer integrating or looking to integrate OpenPGP into their applications, are a digital security trainer, or are simply curious about the state of the OpenPGP ecosystem, this talk is for you!