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Certificate Flooding, SKS and GnuPG Issues, and the Sequoia Project

The problem seems basically unfixable, and oh god, of course the reason involves unmaintained academic code written in OCaml. pic.twitter.com/aScg3zns1C

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) June 29, 2019

That's just how it works. You don't get special treatment because you're a nice, volunteer-run project with a legacy codebase from the 90s. If you're unable to fix your issues then these things will happen.

— hanno (@hanno) July 1, 2019

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Hagrid: A New Verifying Key Server Built on Sequoia

On Wednesday, Vincent launched a new key server at keys.openpgp.org! What makes this launch special is that keys.openpgp.org is running Hagrid —“The Keeper of Keys”—a new verifying key server, which is written in Rust and based on Sequoia. Even though the launch didn’t receive much media attention, 700 people have already verified their keys in the 48 hours since the announcement.

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At the Tree Nursery, First Impressions

Our last status update was six months ago, shortly after our first preliminary release. Since then, quite a bit has happened in and around Sequoia.

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State of the Seedling

I’d like to inform you about the recent progress on your favorite OpenPGP implementation. It has been eight weeks since I last wrote an update, and there are exciting developments to report.

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The Seedling Sees the Light of Day

The Sequoia team proudly presents the first release of a new, cool OpenPGP implementation. On October 16, 2017, we made the first commit to the Sequoia repository. Just over a year and a thousand commits later, Sequoia’s low-level API is nearly feature complete, and is already usable. For instance, a port of the p≡p engine to Sequoia is almost finished, and the code is significantly simpler than the version using the current OpenPGP library.

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State of the Seedling

I’d like to inform you about the recent progress on your favorite OpenPGP implementation. It has been five weeks since I last wrote an update, and there are exciting developments to report.

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State of the Seedling

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I’d like to inform you about the recent progress on your favorite OpenPGP implementation. It has been five weeks since my last report, and there are exciting developments to report.

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