Any UNIX API for GPG available?

[Brian Mearns]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Peter Pentchev<roam at ringlet.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 02:21:29AM -0700, littleBrain wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have the UNIX API documentation for GPG?
>>
>> Please reply to this thread. That would be very much helpful..
>
> What exactly are you looking for?
>
> If you want to encrypt, decrypt, sign, or verify OpenPGP messages
> from a program you are writing, and you want to use GnuPG for
> this, you may take a look at the "GnuPG Made Easy" library -
> http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
>
> Once you download and install it, there will be a gpgme.info file
> which you may examine through any texinfo browser, such as
> the "info" or "pinfo" command-line tools.
>
> If that's not what you mean by "UNIX API documentation for GPG",
> you'll have to explain a bit better what you are looking for :)
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> G'luck,
> Peter
>
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GPGME just invokes gnupg in a subshell, right? And parses the
response? Not that this won't work, it just seems so inelegant. Does
anyone know of efforts to right an actual free-software library that
implements OpenPGP?

-Brian

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