gnupg-for-java

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Antony Prince:
> On 09/10/2015 05:17 PM, Antony Prince wrote:
>> without gpgme installed). I'm not 100% sure how to test the
>> functionality of the binary and library, so if anyone wants to give it a
>> go, I'd be glad to hear the results. The ftp server[2] allows for
>> anonymous download.
>> [2]ftp://blazrsoft.com/
>>
> 
> As an update on this, I've written a very short program to invoke the
> test functions of the library. This is more of a learning exercise for
> me, but I figured I'd let anyone interested know that I was still
> pursuing it. It doesn't work 100% yet and I'm working towards figuring
> it out, but at the very least, I've got the suite() method in
> com.freiheit.gnupg.tests.GnuPGTestSuite to start attempting its key
> creation tests. The results are:
> 
> suite()
> genKey: " <GnupgKeyParms format="internal">
> Key-Type: DSA
> Key-Length: 1024
> Subkey-Type: ELG-E
> Subkey-Length: 1024
> Name-Real: alpha
> Name-Comment: just a test
> Name-Email: alpha at alpha.org
> Expire-Date: 0
> Passphrase: alpha
> </GnupgKeyParms>"
> Exception in thread "main" com.freiheit.gnupg.GnuPGException: 117440513:
> General error
> 	at com.freiheit.gnupg.GnuPGContext.gpgmeOpGenKey(Native Method)
> 	at com.freiheit.gnupg.GnuPGContext.genKey(GnuPGContext.java:748)
> 	at com.freiheit.gnupg.tests.GnuPGTestSuite.suite(GnuPGTestSuite.java:66)
> 	at com.blazrsoft.gnupg4javatester.MainClass.main(MainClass.java:8)
> 
> It is failing at the call to genKey(). I'll figure it out eventually I'm
> sure. This is using the .jar and .so files created by the Travis CI
> builds that I mentioned earlier. I'll likely perform tests with natively
> built files to see if the issue lies there, etc. If I can maintain the
> motivation, I may eventually work on my own Java front-end for the
> library, just to see if I can do it.
>

This is all great work, Antony!  We'd be happy to include it in our repo.
We've basically only used gnupg-for-java in our Android app GnuPG for Android,
so it is not so polished on desktop, as you saw.

.hc

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