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Re: [openpgp] Stateless OpenPGP command line interface proposal

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Thu, 05 December 2019 00:01 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, Wyllys Ingersoll <wyllys@gmail.com>, "openpgp@ietf.org OpenPGP" <openpgp@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [openpgp] Stateless OpenPGP command line interface proposal
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Stateless OpenPGP command line interface proposal
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:
>On Tue 2019-12-03 08:05:55 +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:
>>
>>>Maybe there are others?
>>
>> I threw together a quick command-line en/decrypt tool as a CLI wrapper around
>> the cryptlib API when I got frustrated with how complex GPG was to use, so
>> there's at least one more, built purely as a CLI-around-an-API app.
>
>Thanks for the observation, Peter.  Does this have a name, or published
>documentation someplace?  A direct pointer would be helpful!

It doesn't really have a name (I just called the binaries "pgpencrypt" and
"pgpdecrypt") or even a public presence, it's just a quick wrapper for a
handful of library calls.  I commented on it to point out that you can turn a
library/API into a CLI application with very little work, since the topic of
building an app from an API had come up.

Peter.

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