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

Martin Manns mmanns at gmx.net
Fri Jul 2 21:53:07 EDT 2010


On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:48:47 -0400
python at bdurham.com wrote:

> Curious if any of you are using GPG or PGP encryption and/or
> signatures in your Python apps?
...
> 4. generating signatures for files that you are exchanging/posting for
> download?

I use pyme to create and check save file signatures.

> 5. what public keyring services are you using?

None
 
> 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).

pyme works great with Linux.
However, I have never installed it on a Windows system.

Martin



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