[Announce] Libgcrypt 1.3.0 (development) released

Alessandro Vesely vesely at tana.it
Sat May 5 11:41:26 CEST 2007


Werner Koch wrote:
> [...]
> Libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic building
> blocks.  It is originally based on code used by GnuPG.  It does not
> provide any implementaion of OpenPGP or other protocols.  Thorough
> understanding of applied cryptography is required to use libgcrypt.

Are there plans to extend it so as to include those protocols?
Otherwise, is it planned to turn gpgme into a library, or produce
a library version of gpg itself?

IMHO, the above would make it easier to implement GUIs plugins.

Thanks in advance
Ale




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