[guardian-dev] GnuPG for Java

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 10, 2011, at 5:44 AM, Timur Mehrvarz wrote:

> On 11/10/11 07:46, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
>> On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:36:54 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner<hans at at.or.at>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Anyone know anything about GnuPG for Java?  It seems to be Java bindings for the gnupg GPGME library.  I was wondering whether anyone has experience using it and can speak to how complete it is.
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/smartrevolution/gnupg-for-java
> 
>> there is an APG(http://code.google.com/p/android-privacy-guard/) project
>> based on buoyancy-castle
>> it has some bugs (decrypted files are stored
>> inside temp directory permanently :) )
> 
> Ooops, I wasn't aware of that. Is APG still being maintained?
> 
> I'd also be interested to hear about people's experience with bouncycastle and/or GnuPG for Java.

APG is a pure Java implementation of OpenPGP which uses the bouncycastle libs for the encryption.  From what I can tell, its not all that complete.  GnuPG seems to be the most complete OpenPGP implementation, so it would be nice to have on Android.

.hc

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

'You people have such restrictive dress for women,’ she said, hobbling away in three inch heels and panty hose to finish out another pink-collar temp pool day.  - “Hijab Scene #2", by Mohja Kahf