proposal python-gnupg2

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Oct 18 11:28:08 CEST 2016


On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:57, bernhard at intevation.de said:

> As for the perceived shortcomings of gpgme: I believe the goal our 
> GnuPG-Initiative is to add all needed functionality to gpgme. It basically
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

For the records: The name of the thing is "The GnuPG Project".

> is a wrapper around calling gpg(.exe). Some features are less known

GPGME is not a wrapper around gpg but a generic API for end to end
crypto protocols.  How they are implemented in the backends
(src/engine-*.c) is an implementation details and orthogonal to the API.
And no, not all features of gpg will be supported by GPGME.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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