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

0.2.2	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.