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Creating an OpenPGP Web-of-Trust Implementation – A Series

I am excited to announce that PGPainless will receive funding by NGI Assure to develop an implementation of the Web-of-Trust specification proposal! The Web-of-Trust (WoT) serves as an example of a decentralized authentication mechanism for OpenPGP.

May 6, 2022
PGPainless 1.0.0 Released!

Close to the end of 2021 I’m excited to announce the release of PGPainless version 1.0.0! I feel like it finally reached a state of sufficient maturity to be worthy of a major release with a “1” at the front.

December 30, 2021
A Simple OpenPGP API

In this post I demonstrate how easy it is to perform OpenPGP operations in your application by using the SOP API.

October 10, 2021
Progress on PGPainless Development

Photo by Raphael Koh on Unsplash

Not much time has passed since I last wrote about my progress on the PGPainless library. However, I feel like its time for an update.

July 20, 2021
PGPainless 0.2 Released!

I’m very proud and excited to announce the release of PGPainless version 0.2! Among the major improvements are proper signature verification and a new encryption API.

June 2, 2021
Why Signature Verification in OpenPGP is hard

Signature Verification in OpenPGP is hard. Here is why.

April 3, 2021
PGPainless 0.1.0 released

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

After two years and a dozen alpha versions I am very glad to announce the first stable release of PGPainless, a library that makes using OpenPGP fun again!

September 1, 2020
Unified Encrypted Payload Elements for XMPP

An envelope hiding the original message – Image by Bru-nO

This is a proposal to extract the element encryption principle from OpenPGP for XMPP to make it applicable to other encryption protocols.

January 17, 2019
Summer of Code: Smack has OpenPGP Support!

I am very proud to announce, that Smack got support for OpenPGP for XMPP!

July 30, 2018
Summer of Code: Finalizing the PR

Quick update: Only a few days are left until the last and final Evaluation Phase. I spent the week opening my pull request against Smacks master branch and adding a basic trust management implementation. Now the user is required to make decisions whether to trust a contacts key or not. However, the storage implementation is…

July 27, 2018