I didn't say "that any cryptography engineer critical of PGP must have a weird personal vendetta against it". I know the history and context around the matter. I know Filo has actually tried to do the work to replace PGP. I know it didn't stick. I imagine he more than many people understands how difficult the task of replacing it is. But in my opinion that should lead to a more tempered stance that represents an understanding of this subtlety. Instead we see him on team deprecate PGP software because it's not what We want golang users using. Excuse me if I attribute a small ounce of personal pride to that stance. I could be wrong. This is a discussion thread not a formal essay. I respect many things about Filo. I'm just critical of this particular crusade.

I mean yeah, you're right. PGP has been culturally deprecated for years now. There's no skirting that. I am quite happy that Debian is switching to minisign. Once that transition is complete that will be one less reason to keep PGP around. Really, I have absolutely zero allegiance to PGP. I'm just willing to admit that it works (and quite well) despite all the shortcomings that cryptography engineers love to spar with during happy hours. I sincerely do not disparage efforts to replace PGP. I am just tired of the passé mantra that PGP sux amirite or gtfo. As we both clearly understand, it's not really that simple.