Philosophical Question Regarding OpenPGP

2013-02-27 Thread Jim Treinen
Hello everyone, I have a general philosophical question regarding OpenPGP implementations, and I'm hoping that this is an appropriate place to ask it. When it comes to the most actively maintained implementations, it seems that GPG, and GPGME as an API are the de-facto standards. Correspondingly

Is it possible to use keys that aren't on the keyring?

2013-02-22 Thread Jim Treinen
Hello, I have a question about retrieving keys for use with GPGME. I understand that GPG is primarily built to function using keys on the user's keychain, however, I was wondering if it is possible to perform crypto operations using keys that are not on the keyring. For example, rather than encr

Re: Documentation on symmetric key options for GPGME

2013-02-21 Thread Jim Treinen
Thank you for the information. Jim. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:19, jtrei...@gmail.com said: > > > own education, is it possible to force the use of AES (or any other > cipher) > > using the GPGME library ? I don't see any parameters on the * >

Re: Documentation on symmetric key options for GPGME

2013-02-21 Thread Jim Treinen
n the * gpgme_set_protocol* or *gpgme_op_encrypt* functions that would seem to allow for this. Thanks again, Jim. On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 02/20/2013 06:41 PM, Jim Treinen wrote: > > I am new to GPG, specifically GPGME. I am trying to familiarize &

Documentation on symmetric key options for GPGME

2013-02-20 Thread Jim Treinen
something obvious. I have looked at the 'GPG Made Easy' Reference Manual, and do not see any mention of these types of options. Many thanks in advance, Jim Treinen. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailma