<div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>I am working on <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6456724098121728">Easy GnuPG improvements</a> for Google Summer of Code 2018 mentored by Dashamir Hoxha and T K Sourab.</div><div><br></div><div>Dashamir suggested that some of you might be interested in this project so I am dropping its current progress here:</div><div><br></div><div>The Initial scope of the project was to do complete rewrite of egpg using python and GPGME.</div><div>Last week we tried another approach which is to replace the gpg calls with calls to python scripts which achieve the same functionality calls to GPGME library.</div><div><br></div><div>Major things done during few week: </div><div>- learning the use of GPGME following <a href="http://files.au.adversary.org/crypto/GPGMEpythonHOWTOen.html">this</a> resource and bash scripting.<br></div><div>- Setting up development environment (docker scripts)</div><div>- writing scripts for <a href="https://github.com/EasyGnuPG/pgpg/pull/24">signing</a> and <a href="https://github.com/EasyGnuPG/pgpg/pull/53">verification</a> replacing the gpg calls.</div><div><br></div><div>I am updating my weekly reports on <a href="https://github.com/diveshuttam/GSoC18/tree/gh-pages/blog/weekly">this</a> GitHub repo so if you are interested you can watch the repo.</div><div><br></div><div>If many of you are interested, and community doesn't consider these as a noise,  I can also mail my reports every week to this list.</div><div><br></div><div>Lastly, If community has any suggestions for the project and our approach please reach us out through this thread.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Regards,</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Divesh Uttamchandani</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://github.com/diveshuttam" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">GitHub</a><span> </span>|<span> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/diveshuttam/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">LinkedIn</a><span> </span>|<span> </span><a href="http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/spp/f2016045" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">University Profile</a></div><br></div></div>