[Autocrypt] How to create the "raw key" part from an RSA key

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed May 17 18:42:05 EDT 2017


Hi Bjoern--

On Wed 2017-05-17 22:39:17 +0200, Bjoern wrote:
> In fact, OpenSSL does not support PGP directly, but with a little bit
> of code around, it works, see http://www.netpgp.com/ from BSD -
> unfortunately, the project seems to be dead.

My understanding is that P≡P is actually based on an updated version of
Net::PGP, which they've taken over as upstream.

I'm offline right now, but my notes about it suggest that there's
supposed to be a mercurial repository at:

  https://letsencrypt.pep.foundation/dev/repos/netpgp-et

Again, there may be licensing issues with it.  Last time i looked, it
seemed like there was some sort of attempt to change it into GPL, which
afaik is incompatible with the OpenSSL license.  If you (or anyone from
P≡P who is reading this list!) knows of a nice resolution to the
licensing issue, please share it here.  it'd be great to have more
free-software C implementations of OpenPGP available.

> PEP is mainly based upon PGPME which is based upon GnuPG

itym GpgME, not PGPME.  is that right?  I agree that the architecture
for GpgME is much more complicated than a developer might prefer -- it's
mixed in with some underlying assumptions that GnuPG makes about what's
a reasonable way to use keys, and with the GnuPG underlying UI/API,
which can be complicated.

having more C free software implementations available would be great.

      --dkg
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