[Tutor] Guidance needed for script

[Alan Gauld]

"rony dsouza" <rony_dsouza at yahoo.com> wrote

> Using GnuPG to encrypt a file(s) on linux. Essentially two modes of 
> operation would be ideal:

You might find the GPG module useful but it is sadly no longer maintained
by AMK(since 2006). So it may not work in recent versions of Python.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/GnuPrivacyGuard#Python.2BAC8-GnuPGinterface

There is mention of someone possibly picking it up...


There is also something called PyMe which is an interface to GPGMe

http://pyme.sourceforge.net/


> 1. Running something like “./encrypt.py inputfilename.txt” which will 
> output a file called
> “inputfilename.txt.pgp”.
>
> 2. The ability to pipe input into “encrypt.py” and have it write out in 
> encrypted format.
> Something like “echo thisistestdata | ./encrypt.py > encrypted.pgp”.

The use of stdin/stdout for piping and the use of command line arguments
are both covered in the 'Talking to the User' topic of my tutorial.

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
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