Best way to import a public key from libgcrypt to gpgme?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Jan 31 13:17:10 CET 2017


On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:01, amzh at hushmail.com said:

> We 're using libgcrypt to generate a key pair, and to encrypt/decrypt
> data. However, we also need to upload our public keys to server, and
> because of that public key must be Ascii armored. 

Libgcrypt does not implement any protocol; it provides building blocks
which other software can use to implement a protocol or data format.

> libgcrypt to gpgme? Should that involve gpgme_op_import (gpgme_ctx_t
> ctx, gpgme_data_t keydata) ?

gpgme supports the S/MIME and the OpenPGP protocol.  Thus you need to
make keys compliant with these protocol specifications.  Libgcrypt can't
do that - gpg or gpgsm are examples of software which can do that.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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