libgnupg-perl | Perl module interface to GnuPG using GnuPG's coprocess interface | Mehr ...
GnuPG is a perl module that interface with the Gnu Privacy Guard using the coprocess hooks provided by gpg. The communication mechanism uses is shared memory and a status file descriptor. . The module tries it best to map the rather interactive interface of gpg to a more programmatic API. . Also the modules now offers a tied file handle interface to encryption and decryption making a lot more easy to use. . This module doesn't yet provides an interface to the key manipulation facilities of gpg. . It doesn't also provides the memory protection offered by gpg when manipulating user passphrase. . There are also several options (like cipher selections) that aren't available from the perl API.
