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Reminder for the obvious: Javascript is now longer just for web browsers and GPG is not just for email. GPG is also used in B2B scenarios where files are being
by jpalomaki 10y ago
Reminder for the obvious: Javascript is now longer just for web browsers and GPG is not just for email. GPG is also used in B2B scenarios where files are being passed between between servers.
Also Javascript based client applications installed locally are becoming more common (think about Atom etc). Maybe we will soon also see Javascript based desktop IMAP client.
- girvo 10y ago> Javascript based desktop IMAP client Nylas N1 is an example of this (and excellent, might I add)! https://nylas.com/ https://nylas.com/
- grinich 10y agoThanks for the kind words! (I work at Nylas.) Here's a blog post with more details about Nylas N1 and PGP: https://nylas.com/blog/pgp https://nylas.com/blog/pgp
- mike-cardwell 10y agoI'd rather desktop clients written in JavaScript talked to gpg-agent. OpenPGP.js wont let me use my smart card or my yubikey and I don't want to have to maintain multiple keyrings on the same system because some apps want to use GnuPG and others OpenPGP.js