HOWTO on interfacing with gnupg/pgp?

John Arundel john@splange.freeserve.co.uk
Sat Jun 30 10:56:01 2001


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On 2001-06-27 at 05:55:02, Lionel Elie Mamane warbled:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:10:27PM +0100, John Arundel wrote, incoherently:
> > pgpgpg does a reasonable job, though at the moment it just
> > translates GnuPG command-line options to PGP options,
>
> Isn't it the other way round? It seems to me it translates PGP options
> to GnuPG options, which isn't what you would need to use GPGME with
> PGP.
Yes, quite so. I didn't mean to suggest that pgpgpg would be useful in this particular case. However it demonstrates the wrapper idea, and I dare say the code would be a good starting point for writing a PGP wrapper. Though using PGP when you could use GnuPG, especially if it costs you some trouble to do so, seems to border on the perverse... ;o) John -- "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx ____________________________________________________________________________ I prefer encrypted mail (see headers for PGP key) Why encrypt? http://www.heureka.clara.net/sunrise/pgpwhy.htm ____________________________________________________________________________ --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7PZWVw69+kJpgH/QRAjzKAJ0cxo/GJ1Tfg9fT59P6H9luAV7VvACfQAlQ wEvh7Upq0IWrJQnBMt1BQf0= =WyCc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE--