By Sequoia, are they talking about replacing GnuPG with https://sequoia-pgp.org/ for signature verification?
I really hope they don't replace the audited and battle-tested GnuPG parts with some new-fangled project like that just because it is written in "memory-safe" rust.
Meanwhile, GnuPG is well regarded for its code maturity. But it is a C codebase with nearly no tests, no CI pipeline(!!), an architecture that is basically a statemachine with side effects, and over 200 flags. In my experience, only people who haven't experienced the codebase speak positively of it.
It exits 0 when the verification failed, it exits 1 when it passed, and you have to ignore it all and parse the output of the status fd to find the truth.
It provides options to enforce various algorithmic constraints but they only work in some modes and are silently ignored in others.
Does Sequoia-PGP have similar credentials and who funds it?