12 engineers on Hacker News describe using GnuPG first-hand: 5 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“The server only stores the public key ... and verifies signatures with GnuPG”
endorse · production · forgotmypw17 · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using NitroKey Starts with ed25519 and GnuPG for two years without problems?”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · microtonal · 2019-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“your security from GPG which are all things I know and trust”
endorse · personal · zmmmmm · 2018-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to do one-password-per-gnupg-file with plain GnuPG commands, and liked it quite a bit.”
endorse · personal · akeck · 2015-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Works almost anywhere without needing any other applications.”
endorse · personal · 7 yr · sedachv · 2014-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This means I can have secure private keys for ssh and gpg, which I can also back up.”
neutral · personal · jwr · 2026-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use IB's FTP delivery service to receive detailed daily account statements (with GPG encryption).”
neutral · personal · pacificenigma · 2019-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I regret posting my own GPG message, and I'd delete it if I could.”
neutral · personal · somatic · 2019-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run libcurl, GPG, libarchive, and coreutils in an orchestrated scenario to implement a robust and secure deployment/installation subsystem”
neutral · production · chelmuth · 2019-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“passwords live in gpg encrypted files.”
neutral · personal · pavanred · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our using of GPG + Keybase + Git + Hub for commit signing + KBFS”
neutral · production · tristor · 2016-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most recently, though, I've moved to GPG, because frankly, I don't trust myself to do it right.”
neutral · personal · e1ven · 2012-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?