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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.
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Europe Trip Journal – Entry 2: Away-From-Home-Office
Today I followed the advice of some friends and checked out places they recommended. First I went to visit the Notre Dame, which is unfortunately currently closed for visitors to enter. So instead everyone had to gaze at it from behind a construction fence.
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Europe Trip Journal – Entry 1: Vertigo
When I arrived at Gare du Nord, Paris welcomed me perhaps a bit rejective. I had the feeling the city knew that I was the stranger. The people rushed by, not caring about me and the only people that approached me were beggars asking for money. So I was a bit lost, wandering through the…
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Europe Trip Journal – Entry 0: Learning Curve
Today was the first day of my one month-long journey through Europe. And what better place to start than the capital of Europe – Brussels. At roughly 16:00 I arrived at station Bruxelles-Midi after changing the train in Cologne.
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Europe Trip Journal – Entry -1: The Day Before
Photo by Christian Lue on Unsplash I’m going on a one-month long trip through Europe! Yesterday I bought a train ticket worth 30 days of travel time, so now it’s set in stone – or rather in some very expensive digital bits – that I’m going. The last time I’ve been on vacation was during my bachelor studies a few years…
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Peace at any cost?
Peace is universally a good thing. War on the other hand is universally bad. At least that was my idealistic view for my entire life. But something is different now.
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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.
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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.
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How to reach craftsmanship?
Sometimes I feel like I code just as I play the violin. By instinct. I’m not following any rules or well defined procedures. I roughly know where I want to go and more or less how to get there. Then I just start and see where it leads me.
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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.