pombredanne / python-gnupg-2

A modified version of python-gnupg, including security patches, extensive documentation, and extra features.

python-gnupg

Fork of python-gnupg-0.3.2, patched to fix a potential vulnerability which could result in remote code execution, do to unsanitised inputs being passed to subprocess.Popen([...], shell=True).

Installation

From PyPI

It's simple. Just do:

[sudo] pip install gnupg

From this git repository

To install this package from this git repository, do:

git clone https://github.com/isislovecruft/python-gnupg.git
cd python-gnupg
make install
make test

Optionally to build the documentation after installation, do:

make docs

To get started using python-gnupg's API, see the online documentation, and import the module like so:

>>> import gnupg

The primary interface class you'll likely want to interact with is gnupg.GPG:

>>> gpg = gnupg.GPG(gpgbinary='/usr/bin/gpg',
...     gpghome='./keys',
...     pubring='pubring.gpg',
...     secring='secring.gpg')
>>> batch_key_input = gpg.gen_key_input()
>>> print batch_key_input
Key-Type: RSA
Name-Email: isis@wintermute
Name-Comment: Generated by gnupg.py
Key-Length: 4096
Name-Real: Autogenerated Key
%pubring /home/isis/code/python-gnupg/keys/pubring.gpg
%secring /home/isis/code/python-gnupg/keys/secring.gpg
%commit

>>> key = gpg.gen_key(batch_key_input)
>>> print key.fingerprint
245D8FA30F543B742053949F553C0E154F2E7A98

Bug Reports & Feature Requests

Currently, the bugtracker is here on Github. This may change in the future, but for now please feel free to use it to make bugreports and feature requests.

Public comments and discussions are also welcome on the bugtracker, or as tweets.

Patches are greatly appreciated, and if unsuitable for merging I will make improvement suggestions based on code review until the patch is acceptable.