Friends of OpenPGP appeared 😉.

The YubiKey finally supports elliptic curves (There are now very few reasons to continue using RSA4096 instead of ed25519 /cv25519 ).

On NitroKey ’s side. New firmwares now support multiple identities .

GnuPG did 6 micro releases, up to 2.2.26 . Reminder: 2.2.23 fixed a critical CVE .

Sequoia-PGP developers announced the release of version 1.0 ! 😊

Marcel Bokhorst did an amazing work again to make FairEmail so awesome.

Thunderbird has been greatly redesigned , and versions 78.x no more need the Enigmail add-on to support OpenPGP . Big changes implies some little bugs , but the user experience is already greatly improved, and 2021 should be a great year for Thunderbird.

Despite some relevant reasons to not use keys.openpgp.org , this keyserver reached 200 000 verified emails .

KeyBase who started by providing services around OpenPGP , has been acquired by Zoom (price undisclosed ).

ProntonMail improves and provides more services around OpenPGP .

“OpenPGP for XMPP” updated to 0.6.0 .

The OpenPGP Working Group for the IETF prepared 2 documents: a revision of RFC4880 and a draft for the Web Key Directory protocol . We all hope that the IETF will validate them during 2021.