Summary of PGP Situation

I recently submitted a posting about the current situation
of PGP and these are some of the findings.

First of all, If you need to ask PGP questions, don't even
bother going to the PGP newsgroups, as nobody hangs around there
anymore.The real experts are here in comp.os.linux.security.

My concern most specifically had to do with dealing with
PGP files programatically, using some SDK. There are
a few of those out there.

The PGPsdk seems to have gone the commercial route entirely
and the OSS distribution is incomplete and won't even
configure, let alone compile. However, the documentation
is escellent, with examples which are missing from the
other SDKs.

Then there's the heir apparent of PGPsdk, GNUpg Made Easy
which looks very promising but lacks usable documentation.

I also tried the Java-based Cryptix PGP. I gave up on
it because it couldn't open an Al-Gamal file, which are
by far the most common fron the Windows world.

In closing, I have a request: can anyone out there provide
a sample of how to decrypt a PGP file using GPGme??

TIA,

-Ramon F Herrera

Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> First of all, If you need to ask PGP questions, don't even
> bother going to the PGP newsgroups, as nobody hangs around there
> anymore.The real experts are here in comp.os.linux.security.

Which is funny, since the only current PGP product for Linux is PGP
Command Line. I guess that would be kinda ironic that all of our
questions regarding PGP Desktop, Mobile, etc. are apparently best
answered in a Linux group.

CDA

Chris Applegate <ChrisApplegate@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:<coku44$m6v$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>...
> Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> > First of all, If you need to ask PGP questions, don't even
> > bother going to the PGP newsgroups, as nobody hangs around there
> > anymore.The real experts are here in comp.os.linux.security.
>
> Which is funny, since the only current PGP product for Linux is PGP
> Command Line. I guess that would be kinda ironic that all of our
> questions regarding PGP Desktop, Mobile, etc. are apparently best
> answered in a Linux group.
>
> CDA

Well, I have to qualify my statement. I was looking in the
comp.security.pgp.* hierachy which is indeed desolated.
However, I just noticed that there is a much more active
PGP NG: alt.security.pgp

-RFH

Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> In closing, I have a request: can anyone out there provide
> a sample of how to decrypt a PGP file using GPGme??

The current gpgme src apparently does, in its test sources.

See my response to "How to decrypt..."

Jon.

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