Re: ITP: libcrypt-gpg-perl
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:22:05AM +0200, Martijn van de Streek wrote:
> I intend to package the Crypt::GPG perl module (an interface to GnuPG from
> perl), .
Just curious, how does this differ from:
Package: libgnupg-perl
Priority: optional
Section: non-US
Installed-Size: 180
Maintainer: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.7-2
Depends: gnupg
Filename: pool/non-US/main/libg/libgnupg-perl/libgnupg-perl_0.7-2_all.deb
Size: 30792
MD5sum: b1e3907d1427bc5116d04d675acc7221
Description: Perl module interface to GnuPG using GnuPG's coprocess interface.
GnuPG is a perl module that interface with the Gnu Privacy Guard using
the coprocess hooks provided by gpg. The communication mechanism uses
is shared memory and a status file descriptor.
.
The module tries it best to map the rather interactive interface
of gpg to a more programmatic API.
.
Also the modules now offers a tied file handle interface to encryption
and decryption making a lot more easy to use.
.
This module doesn't yet provides an interface to the key manipulation
facilities of gpg.
.
It doesn't also provides the memory protection offered by gpg when
manipulating user passphrase.
.
There are also several options (like cipher selections) that aren't
available from the perl API.
Cheers,
Joost
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