Sequoia does not (yet) have feature parity with GnuPG. Several important components are missing including a public key store. In GnuPG, the public key store i

Sequoia does not (yet) have feature parity with GnuPG. Several important components are missing including a public key store. In GnuPG, the public key store is mandatory. In our discussions with application developers, in particular, developers working on server software, this requirement was more of a hindrance than a help. Thus, in Sequoia we decided it needs to be as easy to bring your own key store (e.g., an existing database) as to use ours. That said, on the desktop, it is quite useful to have a shared key store--you don't want to import keys into each of your OpenPGP-using applications. We hope to finish our [public key store](https://docs.sequoia-pgp.org/sequoia_store/index.html https://docs.sequoia-pgp.org/sequoia_store/index.html) this year along with other features that end users need and expect.