• dan@upvote.au
      8·
      4 months ago

      Right. OpenPGP is the protocol. PGP is the original app, which predates the spec.

      • magi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        41·
        4 months ago

        Did you actually have to acksually this though? Every mom and their cat simply calls it pgp

        • dan@upvote.au
          1·
          4 months ago

          PGP is a different piece of software though. Would you refer to Firefox as “Chrome” because both of them can use the same protocol (HTTP)?

          This reminds me of my parents referring to every games console as a “PlayStation” lol

          • Morphit
            3·
            4 months ago

            Except PGP is a substring of the ‘technically correct’ term. It’s like someone saying you’re playing on your Nintendo - “Um, actually it’s a Nintendo 64.”

    • Xylight@lemdro.idEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Those names get really really confusing. I used GPG to use a PGP key. I get mixed up too much.