From fc986422255fd3deed93a26a4ba9cbd479524d54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:53:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Looks like gpg does the heavy lifting internally. gpg-agent just handles passphrase entry and caching. --- README | 13 ++++--------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) 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 ============ -- 2.26.2