Announced chat control by the EU

[Martin]

Hi

Does such a project via Github (which is Microsoft) deserve trust? I'm 
not so sure about that.


Am 08.10.25 um 20:52 schrieb Tom A. via Gnupg-users:
> 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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