minipgp6: A very lean interpretation of modern OpenPGP
6 points by 7tehdt3cnw6kir6o
6 points by 7tehdt3cnw6kir6o
Hmm. Yet another project that (despite using git) went from nothing to fully formed in one commit, uses emoji everywhere[1], and seemingly has a lot of superfluous comments.
If this was actually written by a human, then it's a pretty cool project - it is plausible that this is just the author's style - but I'm a bit skeptical...
[1] The example extract-cert output with aligned lines prefixed by emoji seems like not the best of ideas? IME emoji widths in the terminal tend to not be very consistent, so these might get misaligned. It also feels like it hurts readability? My eyes are naturally drawn to the flashy emoji instead of the actually useful parts of each line.
edit: I (briefly) talked with the author and I take this back.
Looks OK, for what it is, but personally I don't really care about using PGP at all. In a way I would really love not to use any form of PGP. What I want something that can sign, encrypt and auth me places (e.g. ssh) with a hardware device support). I only use pgp because yubikey is relatively inexpensive, robust and versatile and can be used in pgp to do stuff I need to do while keeping the key offline in a portable devices. The moment someone gives me that functionality outside of PGP I'm never touching PGP again.