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@ -55,16 +55,16 @@ Heiko, I do not believe the above section on the binary needs to be in this hist
### OpenPGP version 4
In 2007, [RFC 4880](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880), defining version 4 of OpenPGP, was published. This version is currently most commonly used in the wild.
In 2007, the IETF published [RFC 4880](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880), which defined version 4 of the OpenPGP standard. At this time, version 4 is the most commonly used version.
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### Multiple major implementations
Today multiple new Free Software implementations of OpenPGP play important roles:
Today, multiple implementations of OpenPGP play important roles:
- Proton Mail, who provide email encryption services for a large number of users, use (and maintain) [OpenPGP.js](https://openpgpjs.org/) as well as [GopenPGP](https://gopenpgp.org/).
- The Thunderbird email software is using the [RNP](https://www.rnpgp.org/) implementation for their built-in OpenPGP support since version 78 (released in mid-2020).
- The RPM Package Manager software includes an OpenPGP backend based on [Sequoia PGP](https://sequoia-pgp.org/), a modern OpenPGP implementation in Rust. Fedora [uses Sequoia PGP in rpm](https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2023/04/27/rpm-sequoia/) since version 38.
- Proton Mail, which provides email encryption services for a large number of users, uses and maintains [OpenPGP.js](https://openpgpjs.org/) as well as [GopenPGP](https://gopenpgp.org/), an OpenPGP wrapper library written in golang.
- The Mozilla Thunderbird email software uses [RNP](https://www.rnpgp.org/), its C++ implementation of OpenPGP.
- The RPM Package Manager software includes an OpenPGP backend based on [Sequoia PGP](https://sequoia-pgp.org/), a modern OpenPGP implementation written in Rust. The Fedora operating system, Fedora Linux 38, [uses Sequoia PGP in rpm](https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2023/04/27/rpm-sequoia/).
## The road ahead