gpg or gpgme?

[John Clizbe]

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Jonathan Revusky wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been charged with the task of creating a java wrapper API around
> gnupg.
>
> When I saw that there was a shared library gpgme, and that it was in
> principle "made easy", I thought that the best thing to do would be to
> use JNI (Java native interface) to call routines in the gpgme shared
> library. However, once I realized that gpgme simply invokes in turn the
> gpg executable, and given the extreme PITA that working with JNI is, it
> now seems to be that the most appealing approach is just to use
> interprocess communication and invoke the gpg executable from java.

Why not use an implementation of OpenPGP in Java? Take a look at
Cryptix OpenPGP - Open source and claims RFC 2440 compliance:

http://www.cryptix.org/products/openpgp/index.html

More at:
http://www.google.com/search?&q=java+encryption+gpg


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