Tag: pgp

GPG-Agent Socket Paths

Written by Dominik Pantůček on 2024-12-19

Originally working on a YubiKey support for Crypt4GH stream processing library turned out to become a work to fully support GnuPG at least on UNIX platforms. In recent GnuPG versions everything is handled by gpg-agent but an interesting problem arose - how to find its socket when using alternative GnuPG homedir?

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Scripting gpg with Go

Written by Jiří Keresteš on 2020-01-23

Sometimes, you just need to use gpg from a script. There's a couple of ways to achieve your goals, and a lot of dead ends. Read on to learn more!

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OpenPGP Web Key Directory Explained

Written by Jiří Keresteš on 2019-08-01

If you ever tried to send an encrypted e-mail to someone you haven't met before, you know that getting the right public key can be a quite challenging task. Traditional OpenPGP key servers[1] are usually everything but useful in this case. In this post, we'll see how OpenPGP Web Key Directory[2] tries to solve this situation.

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