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Ubuntu 26.10 Will Offer a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement Option

Ubuntu 26.10 Will Offer a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement Option
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The blog It's FOSS reports: You already know that Canonical has been selectively replacing Ubuntu's C-based system components with Rust-written equivalents that don't compromise in terms of functionality, most of the time. Now it looks like the distro's OpenPGP implementation is next, with Sequoia PGP coming preinstalled in Ubuntu 26.10. Canonical wants it to eventually replace GnuPG [the dominant Linux implementation of PGP, written in C] as the default toolchain, though that switch has not ha

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