Announced chat control by the EU

[Tom A.]

Hi Martin
GnuPG will not be dead. The question is, which app or server will affect
the Chat Control.
When the Spot-On Messenger released in 2014 the POPTASTIC feature, which
was encrypted chat over e-Mail, and Delta.Chat was 2016 based on it, it was
not a new encryption feature, but a dual-use of a server, which cannot deny
encryption.
Now with several days release of new Spot-On Messenger for Linux (K/ubuntu)
and Mac a similar feature has been released.
GPG ist used for chat over GIT.
https://github.com/textbrowser/spot-on/releases/tag/2025.09.28
Means, you need a Git account and chat over two GIT Accounts via a GIT
Server with each other, and it appears as a git commit with ciphertext :-)
https://github.com/textbrowser/prison-blues/commits/main/
The Feature is called prison blues.
if you connect in the middle an Echo Server, the message is also sent to
GIT or to anther instance by a proxy, the feature is called Human Proxies:
https://www.amazon.com/Human-Proxies-Cryptographic-Networks-end/dp/3759705049
So use a Git Server to chat with GPG.
Works also from terminal on Linux. Discover it. Pobably it takes like
Poptastic again 10 years.
Regards Tom


On Sat, Oct 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM Martin <martin at postzone.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Perhaps I missed the discussion here - if so, please send me the link.
>
> My question would be, what will actually happen to GnuPG if the EU's
> announced and threatened chat control really comes into effect? What
> impact will this have on encrypted emails? Will GnuPG still have a
> future, and if so, how?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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