Subject: Re: encryption
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@oltronics.net)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 21:00:10 CDT
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>For real security, one should install and use an OpenPGP client. While
>we may interface to GnuPG, we should NOT be doing any sort of
>encryption ourselves. Crypto is best left up to cypherpunks. And using
>GPG would make us compatable with OpenPGP keys.
I agree. GPG is built to be scripted (e.g. you can get the list of keys with
all the fields separated by colons so that a program can parse it; if a colon
occurs in a field it is converted to \x3a so as not to mess up the
colon-counter). Let's figure out what we want to do (encrypt with symmetric
key? sign? encrypt with public key?) and write a GPG back end to do it.
phma
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