Gnugpg

[Old Rocker]

On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 08:00, Tony Arnold wrote:

> C Hamel wrote:
> > How is it that GPGME was compiled w/o backend support??  Is no
> > ubuntu user interested in encryption/signing?  I think that is
> > highly unlikely so would appreciate, once more, someone's solution.
>
> I'm not sure what GPGME does, but I use encryption and signing with
> gnupg on Ubuntu. Maybe you need to install the gnupg package?
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GPGME (GPG Made Easy) is an integrated code designed to work with other 
packages.  The GPG website describes it thus:

"GPGME (GnuPG Made Easy) is a C language library that allows to add 
support for cryptography to a program. It is designed to make access to 
public key crypto engines like GnuPG or GpgSM easier for applications. 
GPGME provides a high-level crypto API for encryption, decryption, 
signing, signature verification and key management."

In other words, where a program does not support GPG, GPGME can be 
compiled in to the source code as a library dependency, which would 
then allow a program to support GPG seamlessly.  GPGME can be compiled 
on its own but doesn't mean much unless the source code for the program 
is set up to use it as a library.

GPG or GpgSM need to be present as well and GPGME acts as a bridge, 
making GPG, in effect, a dependency of the package you are trying to 
integrate it with.

Yes, I am interested in encryption and signing, and if you are too, you 
really should join the GPG mailing list at:

http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

If you are still a newbie at public key encryption systems, I would also 
recommend joing the PGP-Basics yahoogroup.  This covers both GPG and 
PGP for Windows and Linux users and there are some very helpful 
documents you can download as well.  Join it at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PGP-Basics/

and if you are interested in setting up or joining key signing events 
you can find out more at:

http://www.biglumber.com

HTH

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Old Rocker