Perl Wrapper for GPG?

[Frank Tobin]

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Lee Goddard, at 14:59 +0100 on Thu, 19 Oct 2000, wrote:

> It would be a module, but rather than a reinterpretation of the
> OpenPGP RFC or some other Crypt routine, or the PGP module that
> makes a system call to PGP, I need a Perl interface to
> the C en-/decrypt routines.  It is, I figure, a speed thing,
> as the wrapper will map Perl vars to the C data types, and Perl
> subs to C functions.

Why would anyone want to re-implement OpenPGP in Perl when one should be
relying on existing implementations?  OpenPGP functionality cannot simply
be wrapped inside a "crypt" call.  The sanest way to handle the operation
is to hand off the data to GnuPG in some form.  This is what GnuPG.pm and
GnuPG::Interface do (two CPAN-available modules).

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Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
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