python-gnupg

GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a GNU project, an implementation of the OpenPGP standard, for encrypting and signing data and communication streams.

The python-gnupg module was created to help Python developers working on Python software and websites to easily add GPG functionality to their app without having to deal with C libraries or other external binaries.

The python-gnupg library does this from pure Python code, allowing programmers to easily embed it anywhere with their code for maximum portability.

What is new in this release:

• ADDED:
• Support for automatically finding gpg2 binaries on the user's $PATH.
• Patches to fix a problem when gnupg.GPG was initialised with verbose=True.
• Patches to support choosing the digest algorithm while signing.
• Support for GnuPG>=2.x --import-ownertrust, --export-ownertrust, and --fix-trustdb commands.
• A lot of new documentation on obscure things which one can do with GnuPG keys, in the docs/ directory.
• Clearer logging to some functions.
• CHANGES:
• A couple unittests.
• FIXED:
• A failing unittest, test_make_args_drop_protected_options(), which was failing due to a hardcoded path to the gpg binary rather than using the dynamic binary location.

What is new in version 2.0.1:

• ADDED:
• Support for automatically finding gpg2 binaries on the user's $PATH.
• Patches to fix a problem when gnupg.GPG was initialised with verbose=True.
• Patches to support choosing the digest algorithm while signing.
• Support for GnuPG>=2.x --import-ownertrust, --export-ownertrust, and --fix-trustdb commands.
• A lot of new documentation on obscure things which one can do with GnuPG keys, in the docs/ directory.
• Clearer logging to some functions.
• CHANGES:
• A couple unittests.
• FIXED:
• A failing unittest, test_make_args_drop_protected_options(), which was failing due to a hardcoded path to the gpg binary rather than using the dynamic binary location.

What is new in version 2.0.0:

• ADDED:
• Support for automatically finding gpg2 binaries on the user's $PATH.
• Patches to fix a problem when gnupg.GPG was initialised with verbose=True.
• Patches to support choosing the digest algorithm while signing.
• Support for GnuPG>=2.x --import-ownertrust, --export-ownertrust, and --fix-trustdb commands.
• A lot of new documentation on obscure things which one can do with GnuPG keys, in the docs/ directory.
• Clearer logging to some functions.
• CHANGES:
• A couple unittests.
• FIXED:
• A failing unittest, test_make_args_drop_protected_options(), which was failing due to a hardcoded path to the gpg binary rather than using the dynamic binary location.

What is new in version 1.2.2:

• ADDED:
• Several patches by Mikael Nordfeldth
• FIXES:
• Issue reported by Micah F. Lee with batch file Key-Usage syntax when using GnuPG 1.x due to using 'default' as the default key type in GPG.gen_key_input().

What is new in version 1.1.8:

• Added more recognized keys to ListPackets status handling method.
• Fixed list_packets() call in utilities.
• Added missing param to utilities methods.
• Fixed sign() and encrypt() docstrings.
• Fixed delete_keys command line options.
• Fixed a bug in the unitests clean up function which did not move keypairs generated during unittest run into tests/generated-keys/.
• Removed two unused imports from the 'inspect' module in gnupg.py.
• Added a symbolic link README->README.md so Github docs display correctly.

Requirements:

• Python 2.6 or higher