gpgme: A Library Designed to Give Applications Easy Access to GnuPG
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- Zusammenfassung (meist engl.)
- GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME) is a library designed to make access to GnuPG easier for applications. It provides a high-level Crypto API for encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification, and key management. Currently it uses GnuPG as its back-end, but the API is not restricted to this engine. Because the direct use of GnuPG from an application can be a complicated programming task, it is suggested that all software should try to use GPGME instead. This way bug fixes or improvements can be done at a central place and every application benefits from this. Authors of MUAs should especially consider using GPGME. Creating a set of standard widgets for common key selection tasks is even planned.