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rnpgp / rnp

rnp

RNP: high performance C++ OpenPGP library used by Mozilla Thunderbird

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
250GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

RNP: high performance C++ OpenPGP library used by Mozilla Thunderbird

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-02-01 17:23:09 UTC to 2023-12-08 00:46:18 UTC.

012021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> One camp (Open) wants to move faster and break backward compatibility, the other (Libre) wants to move slower and maintain backwards compatibility There is no breaking of backward compatibility. The crypto-refresh draft and the LibrePGP draft are equally backward-compatible. See 'A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates”': * https://blog.pgpkeys.eu/critique-critique Both groups would create a new format (Libre = v5; crypto-refresh = v6). v4-only wouldn't be able to handle either new format, and newer software could presumably be told to create files in the older format. The Proton folks are choosing to support both v5 and v6: * https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto/pull/182 As is the Thunderbird/RNP team: * https://github.com/rnpgp/rnp/commit/fdfc1f5bb11d439e35f3c855...
In A Schism in the OpenPGP World

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