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 [[!meta  title="pgp-mime"]]
-[[!template id=gitrepo repo=calibcant]]
+[[!template id=gitrepo repo=pgp-mime]]
 [[!meta  date="2009-02-04 11:39:37"]]
 
 I've been scripting up a few things recently and my inability to send
@@ -15,17 +15,40 @@ to hold Mutt's hand while it signs the emails.  I dunno why Mutt
 doesn't have some `--batch` mode options to support PGP, but there it
 is.
 
-Pgp-mime is my home-grown solution.  It' not very complicated really,
+Pgp-mime is my home-grown solution.  It's not very complicated really,
 just implementing the [RFC 3156][] specs in [[Python]].  It's been
 through a number of iterations over the years, and now (2012) I think
 the interface has matured to the point of actually being useful to
-other people as well ;).  [[Email me|contact]] with (encrypted!)
-feedback.
+other people as well ;).
+
+While there are [some other GnuPG wrappers][wrappers] for Python, my
+wrappers are the only ones using [the Assuan protocol][assuan] (via my
+[[pyassuan]]) to communicate with [gpgme-tool][].  All the other
+interfaces spawn `gpg` directly (e.g. using the [subprocess][]
+module), and scrape its output, which is not ideal.
+
+Pgp-mime still uses `subprocess` to spawn `gpgme-tool`, but I'm
+currently working with the GnuPG folks to get a proper socket
+interface which would put `gpgme-tool` on par with `gpg-agent`.  Then
+pgp-mime could drop all the `subprocess` stuff, which would make
+things more robust.  I'm also waiting on Python 3.3 to get support for
+[sendmsg][] and [recvmsg][] in Python's [socket][] module, which would
+allow me to pass file descriptors to a persistent, external
+`gpgme-tool`.
 
 The `README` is posted on the [PyPI page][pypi].
 
+[[Email me|contact]] with (encrypted!) feedback.
+
 [RFC 3156]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3156.txt
 [pypi]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pgp-mime/
+[wrappers]: http://wiki.python.org/moin/GnuPrivacyGuard
+[assuan]: http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/assuan/
+[gpgme-tool]: http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gpgme.git;a=blob;f=src/gpgme-tool.c;hb=HEAD
+[subprocess]: http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html
+[sendmsg]: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/socket.html#socket.socket.sendmsg
+[recvmsg]: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/socket.html#socket.socket.recvmsg
+[socket]: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/socket.html
 
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