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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 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.

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 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

0.2.8	Fixed Issue #29 : Now handles IMPORT_RES while verifying. Fixed Issue #30 : Fixed an encoding problem. Fixed Issue #33 : Quoted arguments for added safety.
0.2.7	Fixed Issue #24 : License is clarified as BSD. Fixed Issue #25 : Incorporated Daniel Folkinshteyn's changes. Fixed Issue #26 : Incorporated Yann Leboulanger's subkey change.Fixed Issue #27 : Incorporated hysterix's support for symmetric encryption. Also did some internal cleanups of Unicode handling.
0.2.6	Fixed Issue #14 : Should be able to accept passphrases from GPG-Agent. Fixed Issue #19 : Should be able to create a detached signature. Fixed Issue #21 , Issue #23 : Better handling of less common responses from GPG.
0.2.5	Fixed Issue #11 , Issue #16 : Detached signatures can now be created. Fixed Issue #3 : Detached signatures can be verified. Fixed Issue #12 : Better support for RSA and IDEA. Fixed Issue #15 , Issue #17 : Better support for non-ASCII input.
0.2.4	Fixed Issue #9 : Now allows encryption without armor and the ability to encrypt and decrypt directly to/from files.
0.2.3	Fixed Issue #7 : 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	Fixed Issues #5 and #6: Added `--batch` when specifying `--passphrase-fd` and changed the name of the distribution file to add the `python-` prefix.
0.2.1	Fixed Issue #2 : Added `handle_status` method to the `ListKeys` class.
0.2.0	Various changes made to support Python 3.0.
0.1.0	Initial release.