Neal H. Walfield

> * assure symmetric crypto is compatible with GPG, and ideally the GPG tools can be used for decryption, too, if the password is known. In this regard, Sequoia should...

One of our primary goals for Sequoia is to provide a convenient, easy-to-use API. So, we're happy to get your feedback and understand your issues. But, we're not just interested...

> Looks like it is not going to happen due to [nettle](https://www.lysator.liu.se/%7Enisse/nettle/), which is very much at home anywhere non-windows. Thanks for looking into this. We (the Sequoia dev team)...

> encrypt with private GPG key using one of the example programs > decrypt FWIW, you don't need a private key to encrypt (but you do need it for signing)....

> About encryption: amazing, I always thought the private key is always required Think about it this way: when you want to send me an encrypted message, you don't need...

> The decryption is another matter though, as the private keys are kept in the GPG keychain for many. The other kind of user will not have a permanent GPG...

> Oh, absolutely! I understood that one doesn't even need your own private key. Is that indeed the case? You don't need your own private key to encrypt to yourself....

Sequoia can now use Windows CNG on Windows. See https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2020/08/21/202008-sequoia-0.19.0/ and https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia#cryptography .

Sequoia has first class support for PGP Keyrings, but I guess you mean Sequoia doesn't have a replacement for the whole of `~/.gnupg`. That's true. After we release 1.0 (any...

To clarify: sequoia's public keystore will (probably) not use the gpg public keyring, but sequoia's private key store will be able to use secret key material managed by gpg agent.