[Gpg4win-devel] PASS PHRASE Handling in frontend

[Bernhard Reiter]

Dear Vineet,

On Monday 02 October 2006 08:46, Vineet Madan wrote:
> i am building a frontend for gpg and want to know as to how is pass phrase
> handled . Frontend would imply running key generation in automated
> enviroment.
>
> so where is passphrase stored . how and where is it fed while decryption. i
> want to know the flow path of pass phrase while dealing with key gen and
> encryption/ decryption process.

there is a library API which you can use to implement frontends to GnuPG
http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/

GPA which comes with Gpg4win also uses gpgme, so you can look into the source 
code how it is done.

If you have more details questions I suggest to ask on the gnupg-devel 
or gpa-dev mailinglists as they are more appropriate for GnuPG questions.
See http://www.gnupg.org//documentation/mailing-lists.html

This list mainly is about the development of the installer Gpg4win
to make windows versions of projects like GnuPG more easily accessible.

Is there a special reason why the frontends 
WinPT or GPA are not fullfilling your needs already?

Best,
Bernhard

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