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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by jrochkind1 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:59PM (#24512193)
What industry do you mean by "this industry"? Just... computing?

I didn't know OpenPGP was used to authenticate OS updates for most servers today. Can you give me a place to find out more about that; are you talking about a specific OS?

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by somedude11 on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:34AM (#24515050)
Packet managers on pretty much every Linux distribution use GPG for verifying packages.
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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by aptmiguk on Friday September 18, 2020 @05:34AM (#24514749)
It's used to digitally sign software, not encrypting.
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