Perl Wrapper for GPG?

[Mr.Bad]

>>>>> "FT" == Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu> writes:

    FT> Why would anyone want to re-implement OpenPGP in Perl when one
    FT> should be relying on existing implementations?  OpenPGP
    FT> functionality cannot simply be wrapped inside a "crypt" call.

The main reason to write an XSUB interface rather than passing things
off to another process is, of course, performance.

For developer-time optimization, Lee, I'd recommend using the existing
GnuPG.pm.

If run-time optimization is important, or if you're just really hot to
write an XSUB, you're kind of out of luck as far as GnuPG is concerned
-- there's no packaged library available. You *may* be able to rip
apart the code and make a library out of it (hooray for Free
Software!), but nobody's done it yet so I assume it's not a trivial
exercise.

Another option is using the CTC library:

        http://www.bifroest.demon.co.uk/ctc/ctcinfo.htm

...which is a GPL'd PGP-compatible library. I don't have any info on
it except that I've downloaded it and wasn't able to build it.

~Mr. Bad
 
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