Libraries

This page collects libraries related to GnuPG project.

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EGD

Unices without a /dev/random should download and install this Entropy Gathering Daemon.

GNUTLS

A somewhat related project to GnuPG is GNUTLS which is is a GPLed TLS/SSL implementation.

GPGME

GnuPG Made Easy is a library designed to make access to GnuPG easier for applications.

libassuan

Libassuan is the IPC library used by some GnuPG related software.

libgcrypt

Libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG. It provides functions for all cryptographic building blocks: symmetric ciphers, hash algorithms, MACs, public key algorithms, large integer functions, random numbers and a lot of supporting functions.

libgpg-error

Libgpg-error is helper library used by a couple of other projects to provide a common set of error codes and descriptions.

libksba

Libksba provides an easy API to create and parse X.509 and CMS related objects.