From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:53:20 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Looks like gpg does the heavy lifting internally.
X-Git-Tag: v0.2~23
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Looks like gpg does the heavy lifting internally.

gpg-agent just handles passphrase entry and caching.
---

diff --git a/README b/README
index 4f3ef05..ea35602 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,18 +2,13 @@ Python module and tools for communicating in the Assuan_ protocol.
 
 There are a number of GnuPG_ wrappers for python `out there`__, but
 they mostly work via the ``gpg`` executable.  This is an attempt to
-cut to the chase and speak directly to ``gpg-agent``, which offers a
-number of advantages::
+cut to the chase and speak directly to ``gpg-agent``.  Unfortunately,
+``gpg`` only uses ``gpg-agent`` for passphrase caching, not
+encryption.  This means that speaking directly to ``gpg-agent``
+doesn't help you do much cryptography.
 
 __ wrappers_
 
-* No need to spawn ``gpg`` every time you want to do something
-  cryptographic.
-* No need to `do anything fancy with file descriptors`__ to verify
-  detached signatures.
-
-__ enable-special-filenames_
-
 Installation
 ============