README
1GnuPG
2=====
3
4Version: 0.9
5
6Requirements
7------------
8
9perl
10gpg 1.0.0 or later. (Version 1.05 recommanded)
11SysV compatible shared memory.
12
13Description
14-----------
15
16GnuPG is a perl module that interface with the Gnu Privacy Guard using
17the coprocess hooks provided by gpg. The communication mechanism uses
18is shared memory and a status file descriptor.
19
20There are others perl interface to PGP and GnuPG but none of them
21used the coprocess interface provided by gpg.
22
23The module tries it best to map the rather interactive interface
24of gpg to a more programmatic API.
25
26Also the modules now offers a tied file handle interface to encryption
27and decryption making a lot more easy to use.
28
29Installing
30----------
31
32The usual:
33
34 perl Makefile.PL
35 make
36 make test
37 make install
38
39Documentation
40-------------
41
42Documentation is included in POD format.
43
44Limitations
45-----------
46
47This module doesn't yet provides an interface to the key manipulation
48facilities of gpg.
49
50It doesn't also provides the memory protection offered by gpg when
51manipulating user passphrase.
52
53There are also several options (like cipher selections) that aren't
54available from the perl API.
55
56Bugs
57----
58
59Send bug reports and suggestions to <bugs@Contre.COM>
60
61Authors
62-------
63
64Francis J. Lacoste <francis.lacoste@Contre.COM>
65
66Copyright
67---------
68
69Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 iNsu Innovations Inc.
70Copyright (c) 2001 Francis J. Lacoste
71All rights reserved.
72
73This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
74it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
75the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
76(at your option) any later version.
77