Symmetric Encryption Requirement

[David Shaw]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:51:05PM -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote:
> The mainframe has cryptographic hardware that has to accessed via
> sofware API's. PGP/GNUPG doesn't use these API's of course so they
> do their work in software.
> 
> I want to be able to strip the extra stuff from a PGP/GNUPG
> encrypted file and use the mainframe facilities to do the actual
> encryption.
> 
> For files in the millions or tens of millons of records the crypto
> hardware makes a big difference.

I've occasionally thought about writing a very simple program that can
handle OpenPGP symmetric encrypted files (i.e. gpg --symmetric).  I
expect it wouldn't be that difficult to do, especially since the
crypto stuff can be trivially pulled in from gcrypt or openssl, or use
the crypto hardware on some platforms like yours.

David