Anyone using GPG or PGP encryption/signatures in your Python apps?

[Steve]

On Jul 2, 4:48 am, pyt... at bdurham.com wrote:
> Curious if any of you are using GPG or PGP encryption and/or signatures
> in your Python apps?
>
> In particular are you:
>
> 1. clearsigning specific emails?
> 2. validating clearsigned emails from others?
> 3. encrypting/decrypting files?
> 4. generating signatures for files that you are exchanging/posting for
> download?
> 5. what public keyring services are you using?
>
> I'm also looking for recommendations on which 3rd party modules you're
> using for these tasks? In particular is there a particular module you
> prefer or have concerns about?
>
> Here's my short list of modules that *might* support encryption and
> signing in general:
>
> - m2crypto
> - pycrypto (standalone or with expycrypto or yawpycrypto wrappers)
> - tlslite
> - pyme
> - evpy
> - python-gnupg (by developer of Python's logging module)
>
> Any comments on using the subprocess module to wrap the gpg or openssl
> command line utilities? This seems to be a common technique for
> encryption and signing solutions and appears to the technique used by
> python-gnupg (for example).
>
> Thank you,
> Malcolm

I used python-gnupg successfully to create some Django utilities for
sending encrypted email.

You can grab the source code at http://github.com/stephenmcd/django-email-extras

Cheers,
Steve