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What is it?

The GNU Privacy Guard (gpg, or gpg.exe on Windows) is a command-line program which provides support for programmatic access via spawning a separate process to run it and then communicating with that process from your program.

This project, python-gnupg, implements a Python library which takes care of the internal details and allows its users to generate and manage keys, encrypt and decrypt data, and sign and verify messages.

Installation

Installing from PyPI

You can install this package from the Python Package Index (pyPI) by running:

pip install python-gnupg

Installing from a source distribution archive

To install this package from a source distribution archive, do the following:

1. Extract all the files in the distribution archive to some directory on your system.
2. In that directory, run python setup.py install.
3. Optionally, run python test_gnupg.py to ensure that the package is working as expected.

Credits

• The developers of the GNU Privacy Guard.
• The original version of this module was developed by Andrew Kuchling.
• It was improved by Richard Jones.
• It was further improved by Steve Traugott.

The present incarnation, based on the earlier versions, uses the subprocess module and so works on Windows as well as Unix/Linux platforms. It's not, however, 100% backwards-compatible with earlier incarnations.

Change log

N.B: GCnn refers to an issue nn on Google Code.

0.3.9 (future)

Released: Not yet

0.3.8

Released: 2015-09-24

• Fixed #22: handled PROGRESS messages during verification and signing.
• Fixed #26: handled PINENTRY_LAUNCHED messages during verification, decryption and key generation.
• Fixed #28: Allowed a default Name-Email to be computed even when neither of LOGNAME and USERNAME are in the environment.
• Fixed #29: Included test files missing from the tarball in previous versions.
• Fixed #39: On Python 3.x, passing a text instead of a binary stream caused file decryption to hang due to a UnicodeDecodeError. This has now been correctly handled: The decryption fails with a "no data" status.
• Fixed #41: Handled Unicode filenames correctly by encoding them on 2.x using the file system encoding.
• Fixed #43: handled PINENTRY_LAUNCHED messages during key export. Thanks to Ian Denhardt for looking into this.
• Hide the console window which appears on Windows when gpg is spawned. Thanks to Kévin Bernard-Allies for the patch.
• Subkey fingerprints are now captured.
• The returned value from the list_keys method now has a new attribute, key_map, which is a dictionary mapping key and subkey fingerprints to the corresponding key's dictionary. With this change, you don't need to iterate over the (potentially large) returned list to search for a key with a given fingerprint - the key_map dict will take you straight to the key info, whether the fingerprint you have is for a key or a subkey. Thanks to Nick Daly for the initial suggestion.

0.3.7

Released: 2014-12-07

Signed with PGP key: Vinay Sajip (CODE SIGNING KEY) <[email protected]>

Key Fingerprint : CA74 9061 914E AC13 8E66 EADB 9147 B477 339A 9B86

• Added an output keyword parameter to the sign and sign_file methods, to allow writing the signature to a file. Thanks to Jannis Leidel for the patch.
• Allowed specifying True for the sign keyword parameter, which allows use of the default key for signing and avoids having to specify a key id when it's desired to use the default. Thanks to Fabian Beutel for the patch.
• Used a uniform approach with subprocess on Windows and POSIX: shell=True is not used on either.
• When signing/verifying, the status is updated to reflect any expired or revoked keys or signatures.
• Handled 'NOTATION_NAME' and 'NOTATION_DATA' during verification.
• Fixed #1, #16, #18, #20: Quoting approach changed, since now shell=False.
• Fixed #14: Handled 'NEED_PASSPHRASE_PIN' message.
• Fixed #8: Added a scan_keys method to allow scanning of keys without the need to import into a keyring. Thanks to Venzen Khaosan for the suggestion.
• Fixed #5: Added '0x' prefix when searching for keys. Thanks to Aaron Toponce for the report.
• Fixed #4: Handled 'PROGRESS' message during encryption. Thanks to Daniel Mills for the report.
• Fixed #3: Changed default encoding to Latin-1.
• Fixed #2: Raised ValueError if no recipients were specified for an asymmetric encryption request.
• Handled 'UNEXPECTED' message during verification. Thanks to David Andersen for the patch.
• Replaced old range(len(X)) idiom with enumerate().
• Refactored ListKeys / SearchKeys classes to maximise use of common functions.
• Fixed GC94: Added export-minimal and armor options when exporting keys. This addition was inadvertently left out of 0.3.6.

0.3.6

Released: 2014-02-05

• Fixed GC82: Enabled fast random tests on gpg as well as gpg2.
• Fixed GC85: Avoided deleting temporary file to preserve its permissions.
• Fixed GC87: Avoided writing passphrase to log.
• Fixed GC95: Added verify_data() method to allow verification of signatures in memory.
• Fixed GC96: Regularised end-of-line characters.
• Fixed GC98: Rectified problems with earlier fix for shell injection.

0.3.5

Released: 2013-08-30

• Added improved shell quoting to guard against shell injection.
• Fixed GC76: Added search_keys() and send_keys() methods.
• Fixed GC77: Allowed specifying a symmetric cipher algorithm.
• Fixed GC78: Fell back to utf-8 encoding when no other could be determined.
• Fixed GC79: Default key length is now 2048 bits.
• Fixed GC80: Removed the Name-Comment default in key generation.

0.3.4

Released: 2013-06-05

• Fixed GC65: Fixed encoding exception when getting version.
• Fixed GC66: Now accepts sets and frozensets where appropriate.
• Fixed GC67: Hash algorithm now captured in sign result.
• Fixed GC68: Added support for --secret-keyring.
• Fixed GC70: Added support for multiple keyrings.

0.3.3

Released: 2013-03-11

• Fixed GC57: Handled control characters in list_keys().
• Fixed GC61: Enabled fast random for testing.
• Fixed GC62: Handled KEYEXPIRED status.
• Fixed GC63: Handled NO_SGNR status.

0.3.2

Released: 2013-01-17

• Fixed GC56: Disallowed blank values in key generation.
• Fixed GC57: Handled colons and other characters in list_keys().
• Fixed GC59/GC60: Handled INV_SGNR status during verification and removed calls requiring interactive password input from doctests.

0.3.1

Released: 2012-09-01

• Fixed GC45: Allowed additional arguments to gpg executable.
• Fixed GC50: Used latin-1 encoding in tests when it's known to be required.
• Fixed GC51: Test now returns non-zero exit status on test failure.
• Fixed GC53: Now handles INV_SGNR and KEY_NOT_CREATED statuses.
• Fixed GC55: Verification and decryption now return trust level of signer in integer and text form.

0.3.0

Released: 2012-05-12

• Fixed GC49: Reinstated Yann Leboulanger's change to support subkeys (accidentally left out in 0.2.7).

0.2.9

Released: 2012-03-29

• Fixed GC36: Now handles CARDCTRL and POLICY_URL messages.
• Fixed GC40: Now handles DECRYPTION_INFO, DECRYPTION_FAILED and DECRYPTION_OKAY messages.
• The random_binary_data file is no longer shipped, but constructed by the test suite if needed.

0.2.8

Released: 2011-09-02

• Fixed GC29: Now handles IMPORT_RES while verifying.
• Fixed GC30: Fixed an encoding problem.
• Fixed GC33: Quoted arguments for added safety.

0.2.7

Released: 2011-04-10

• Fixed GC24: License is clarified as BSD.
• Fixed GC25: Incorporated Daniel Folkinshteyn's changes.
• Fixed GC26: Incorporated Yann Leboulanger's subkey change.
• Fixed GC27: Incorporated hysterix's support for symmetric encryption.
• Did some internal cleanups of Unicode handling.

0.2.6

Released: 2011-01-25

• Fixed GC14: Should be able to accept passphrases from GPG-Agent.
• Fixed GC19: Should be able to create a detached signature.
• Fixed GC21/GC23: Better handling of less common responses from GPG.

0.2.5

Released: 2010-10-13

• Fixed GC11/GC16: Detached signatures can now be created.
• Fixed GC3: Detached signatures can be verified.
• Fixed GC12: Better support for RSA and IDEA.
• Fixed GC15/GC17: Better support for non-ASCII input.

0.2.4

Released: 2010-03-01

• Fixed GC9: Now allows encryption without armor and the ability to encrypt and decrypt directly to/from files.

0.2.3

Released: 2010-01-07

• Fixed GC7: Made sending data to process threaded and added a test case. With a test data file used by the test case, the archive size has gone up to 5MB (the size of the test file).

0.2.2

Released: 2009-10-06

• Fixed GC5/GC6: Added --batch when specifying --passphrase-fd and changed the name of the distribution file to add the python- prefix.

0.2.1

Released: 2009-08-07

• Fixed GC2: Added handle_status() method to the ListKeys class.

0.2.0

Released: 2009-07-16

• Various changes made to support Python 3.0.

0.1.0

Released: 2009-07-04

• Initial release.