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https://github.com/vsajip/python-gnupg

A Python API for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). N.B. This repository has been migrated from Mercurial on 2019-11-16, so references to commits before this date will refer to the Mercurial source and not this Git repository. The migration is marked by a commit that adds a .gitignore file.
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A Python API for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). N.B. This repository has been migrated from Mercurial on 2019-11-16, so references to commits before this date will refer to the Mercurial source and not this Git repository. The migration is marked by a commit that adds a .gitignore file.

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What is it?

===========



The GNU Privacy Guard (gpg, or gpg.exe on Windows) is a command-line program

which provides support for programmatic access via spawning a separate process

to run it and then communicating with that process from your program.



This project, ``python-gnupg``, implements a Python library which takes care

of the internal details and allows its users to generate and manage keys,

encrypt and decrypt data, and sign and verify messages.



Installation

============



Installing from PyPI

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



You can install this package from the Python Package Index (pyPI) by running::



    pip install python-gnupg



.. important::

   There is at least one fork of this project, which was apparently created

   because an earlier version of this software used the ``subprocess`` module

   with ``shell=True``, making it vulnerable to shell injection. **This is no

   longer the case**.



   Forks may not be drop-in compatible with this software, so take care to use

   the correct version, as indicated in the ``pip install`` command above.



Installing from a source distribution archive

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

To install this package from a source distribution archive, do the following:



1. Extract all the files in the distribution archive to some directory on your

   system.

2. In that directory, run ``pip install .``, referencing a suitable ``pip`` (e.g. one

   from a specific venv which you want to install to).

3. Optionally, run ``python test_gnupg.py`` to ensure that the package is

   working as expected.



Credits

=======



* The developers of the GNU Privacy Guard.

* The original version of this module was developed by Andrew Kuchling.

* It was improved by Richard Jones.

* It was further improved by Steve Traugott.



The present incarnation, based on the earlier versions, uses the ``subprocess``

module and so works on Windows as well as Unix/Linux platforms. It's not,

however, 100% backwards-compatible with earlier incarnations.



Change log

==========



.. note:: GCnn refers to an issue nn on Google Code.



0.5.5 (future)

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



Released: Not yet



* Fix #249: Handle fetching GPG version when not the first item in the configuration.



* Fix #250: Capture uid info in a uid_map attribute of ScanKeys/ListKeys.



0.5.4

-----



Released: 2025-01-07



* Fix #242: Handle exceptions in ``on_data`` callable.



0.5.3

-----



Released: 2024-09-20



* Fix #117: Add WKD (Web Key Directory) support for auto-locating keys. Thanks to Myzel394

  for the patch.



* Fix #237: Ensure local variable is initialized even when an exception occurs.



* Fix #239: Remove logging of decryption result.



0.5.2

-----



Released: 2023-12-12



* Fix #228: Clarify documentation for encryption/decryption.



* Make I/O buffer size configurable via ``buffer_size`` attribute on a ``GPG`` instance.



0.5.1

-----



Released: 2023-07-22



* Added ``TRUST_EXPIRED`` to ``trust_keys``. Thanks to Leif Liddy for the patch.



* Fix #206: Remove deprecated ``--always-trust`` in favour of ``--trust-model always``



* Fix #208: Add ``status_detail`` attribute to result objects which is populated when

  the status is ``'invalid recipient'`` (encryption/decryption) or ``'invalid signer'``

  (signing). This attribute will be set when the result object's ``status`` attribute is

  set to ``invalid recipient`` and will contain more information about the failure in the

  form of ``reason:ident`` where ``reason`` is a text description of the reason, and

  ``ident`` identifies the recipient key.



* Add ``scan_keys_mem()`` function to scan keys in a string. Thanks to Sky Moore

  for the patch.



* Fix #214: Handle multiple signatures when one of them is invalid or unverified.



* A ``problems`` attribute was added which holds problems reported by ``gpg``

  during verification. This is a list of dictionaries, one for each reported

  problem. Each dictionary will have ``status`` and ``keyid`` keys indicating

  the problem and the corresponding key; other information in the dictionaries

  will be error specific.



* Fix #217: Use machine-readable interface to query the ``gpg`` version. Thanks to Justus

  Winter for the patch.



* Added the ability to export keys to a file. Thanks to Leif Liddy for the patch.



0.5.0

-----



Released: 2022-08-23



* Fixed #181: Added the ability to pass file paths to encrypt_file, decrypt_file,

  sign_file, verify_file, get_recipients_file and added import_keys_file.



* Fixed #183: Handle FAILURE and UNEXPECTED conditions correctly. Thanks to sebbASF for

  the patch.



* Fixed #185: Handle VALIDSIG arguments more robustly.



* Fixed #188: Remove handling of DECRYPTION_FAILED from Verify code, as not required

  there. Thanks to sebbASF for the patch.



* Fixed #190: Handle KEY_CREATED more robustly.



* Fixed #191: Handle NODATA messages during verification.



* Fixed #196: Don't log chunk data by default, as it could contain sensitive

  information (during decryption, for example).



* Added the ability to pass an environment to the gpg executable. Thanks to Edvard

  Rejthar for the patch.



0.4.9

-----



Released: 2022-05-20



* Fixed #161: Added a status attribute to the returned object from gen_key() which

  is set to 'ok' if a key was successfully created, or 'key not created' if that

  was reported by gpg, or None in any other case.



* Fixed #164: Provided the ability to add subkeys. Thanks to Daniel Kilimnik for the

  feature request and patch.



* Fixed #166: Added keygrip values to the information collected when keys are listed.

  Thanks to Daniel Kilimnik for the feature request and patch.



* Fixed #173: Added extra_args to send_keys(), recv_keys() and search_keys() to allow

  passing options relating to key servers.



0.4.8

-----



Released: 2021-11-24



* Fixed #147: Return gpg's return code in all result instances.



* Fixed #152: Add check for invalid file objects.



* Fixed #157: Provide more useful status message when a secret key is absent.



* Fixed #158: Added a get_recipients() API to find the recipients of an encrypted

  message without decrypting it.



0.4.7

-----



Released: 2021-03-11



* Fixed #129, #141: Added support for no passphrase during key generation.



* Fixed #143: Improved permission-denied test. Thanks to Elliot Cameron for the patch.



* Fixed #144: Updated logging to only show partial results.



* Fixed #146: Allowed a passphrase to be passed to import_keys(). Thanks to Chris de

  Graaf for the patch.



0.4.6

-----



Released: 2020-04-17



* Fixed #122: Updated documentation about gnupghome needing to be an existing

  directory.



* Fixed #123: Handled error conditions from gpg when calling trust_keys().



* Fixed #124: Avoided an exception being raised when ImportResult.summary()

  was called after a failed recv_keys().



* Fixed #128: Added ECC support by changing key generation parameters. (The Key-Length

  value isn't added if a curve is specified.)



* Fixed #130: Provided a mechanism to provide more complete error messages.



Support for Python versions 3.5 and under is discontinued, except for Python 2.7.



0.4.5

-----



Released: 2019-08-12



* Fixed #107: Improved documentation.



* Fixed #112: Raised a ValueError if a gnupghome is specified which is not an

  existing directory.



* Fixed #113: Corrected stale link in the documentation.



* Fixed #116: Updated documentation to clarify when spurious key-expired/

  signature-expired messages might be seen.



* Fixed #119: Added --yes to avoid pinentry when deleting secret keys with

  GnuPG >= 2.1.



* A warning is logged if gpg returns a non-zero return code.



* Added ``extra_args`` to ``import_keys``.



* Added support for CI using AppVeyor.



0.4.4

-----



Released: 2019-01-24



* Fixed #108: Changed how any return value from the ``on_data`` callable is

  processed. In earlier versions, the return value was ignored. In this version,

  if the return value is ``False``, the data received from ``gpg`` is not

  buffered. Otherwise (if the value is ``None`` or ``True``, for example), the

  data is buffered as normal. This functionality can be used to do your own

  buffering, or to prevent buffering altogether.



  The ``on_data`` callable is also called once with an empty byte-string to

  signal the end of data from ``gpg``.



* Fixed #97: Added an additional attribute ``check_fingerprint_collisions`` to

  ``GPG`` instances, which defaults to ``False``. It seems that ``gpg`` is happy

  to have duplicate keys and fingerprints in a keyring, so we can't be too

  strict. A user can set this attribute of an instance to ``True`` to trigger a

  check for collisions.



* Fixed #111: With GnuPG 2.2.7 or later, provide the fingerprint of a signing

  key for a failed signature verification, if available.



* Fixed #21: For verification where multiple signatures are involved, a

  mapping of signature_ids to fingerprint, keyid, username, creation date,

  creation timestamp and expiry timestamp is provided.



* Added a check to disallow certain control characters ('\r', '\n', NUL) in

  passphrases.



0.4.3

-----



Released: 2018-06-13



* Added --no-verbose to the gpg command line, in case verbose is specified in

  gpg.conf - we don't need verbose output.



0.4.2

-----



Released: 2018-03-28



* Fixed #81: Subkey information is now collected and returned in a ``subkey_info``

  dictionary keyed by the subkey's ID.



* Fixed #84: GPG2 version is now correctly detected on OS X.



* Fixed #94: Added ``expect_passphrase`` password for use on GnuPG >= 2.1 when

  passing passphrase to ``gpg`` via pinentry.



* Fixed #95: Provided a ``trust_keys`` method to allow setting the trust level

  for keys. Thanks to William Foster for a suggested implementation.



* Made the exception message when the gpg executable is not found contain the

  path of the executable that was tried. Thanks to Kostis Anagnostopoulos for

  the suggestion.



* Fixed #100: Made the error message less categorical in the case of a failure

  with an unspecified reason, adding some information from gpg error codes when

  available.



0.4.1

-----



Released: 2017-07-06



* Updated message handling logic to no longer raise exceptions when a message

  isn't recognised. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for the patch.



* Always use always use ``--fixed-list-mode``, ``--batch`` and

  ``--with-colons``. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for the patch.



* Improved ``scan_keys()`` handling on GnuPG >= 2.1. Thanks to Daniel Kahn

  Gillmor for the patch.



* Improved test behaviour with GnuPG >= 2.1. Failures when deleting test

  directory trees are now ignored. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for the patch.



* Added ``close_file`` keyword argument to verify_file to allow the file closing

  to be made optional. Current behaviour is maintained - ``close_file=False``

  can be passed to skip closing the file being verified.



* Added the ``extra_args`` keyword parameter to allow custom arguments to be

  passed to the ``gpg`` executable.



* Instances of the ``GPG`` class now have an additional ``on_data`` attribute,

  which defaults to ``None``. It can be set to a callable which will be called

  with a single argument - a binary chunk of data received from the ``gpg``

  executable. The callable can do whatever it likes with the chunks passed to it

  - e.g. write them to a separate stream. The callable should not raise any

  exceptions (unless it wants the current operation to fail).



0.4.0

-----



Released: 2017-01-29



* Added support for ``KEY_CONSIDERED`` in more places - encryption /

  decryption, signing, key generation and key import.



* Partial fix for #32 (GPG 2.1 compatibility). Unfortunately, better

  support cannot be provided at this point, unless there are certain

  changes (relating to pinentry popups) in how GPG 2.1 works.



* Fixed #60: An IndexError was being thrown by ``scan_keys()``.



* Ensured that utf-8 encoding is used when the ``--with-column`` mode is

  used. Thanks to Yann Leboulanger for the patch.



* ``list_keys()`` now uses ``--fixed-list-mode``. Thanks to Werner Koch

  for the pointer.



0.3.9

-----



Released: 2016-09-10



* Fixed #38: You can now request information about signatures against

  keys. Thanks to SunDwarf for the suggestion and patch, which was used

  as a basis for this change.



* Fixed #49: When exporting keys, no attempt is made to decode the output when

  armor=False is specified.



* Fixed #53: A ``FAILURE`` message caused by passing an incorrect passphrase

  is handled.



* Handled ``EXPORTED`` and ``EXPORT_RES`` messages while exporting keys. Thanks

  to Marcel Pörner for the patch.



* Fixed #54: Improved error message shown when gpg is not available.



* Fixed #55: Added support for ``KEY_CONSIDERED`` while verifying.



* Avoided encoding problems with filenames under Windows. Thanks to Kévin

  Bernard-Allies for the patch.



* Fixed #57: Used a better mechanism for comparing keys.



0.3.8

-----



Released: 2015-09-24



* Fixed #22: handled ``PROGRESS`` messages during verification and signing.



* Fixed #26: handled ``PINENTRY_LAUNCHED`` messages during verification,

  decryption and key generation.



* Fixed #28: Allowed a default Name-Email to be computed even when neither of

  ``LOGNAME`` and ``USERNAME`` are in the environment.



* Fixed #29: Included test files missing from the tarball in previous versions.



* Fixed #39: On Python 3.x, passing a text instead of a binary stream caused

  file decryption to hang due to a ``UnicodeDecodeError``. This has now been

  correctly handled: The decryption fails with a "no data" status.



* Fixed #41: Handled Unicode filenames correctly by encoding them on 2.x using

  the file system encoding.



* Fixed #43: handled ``PINENTRY_LAUNCHED`` messages during key export. Thanks

  to Ian Denhardt for looking into this.



* Hide the console window which appears on Windows when gpg is spawned.

  Thanks to Kévin Bernard-Allies for the patch.



* Subkey fingerprints are now captured.



* The returned value from the ``list_keys`` method now has a new attribute,

  ``key_map``, which is a dictionary mapping key and subkey fingerprints to

  the corresponding key's dictionary. With this change, you don't need to

  iterate over the (potentially large) returned list to search for a key with

  a given fingerprint - the ``key_map`` dict will take you straight to the key

  info, whether the fingerprint you have is for a key or a subkey. Thanks to

  Nick Daly for the initial suggestion.



0.3.7

-----



Released: 2014-12-07



Signed with PGP key: Vinay Sajip (CODE SIGNING KEY) 



Key Fingerprint    : CA74 9061 914E AC13 8E66 EADB 9147 B477 339A 9B86



* Added an ``output`` keyword parameter to the ``sign`` and

  ``sign_file`` methods, to allow writing the signature to a file.

  Thanks to Jannis Leidel for the patch.



* Allowed specifying ``True`` for the ``sign`` keyword parameter,

  which allows use of the default key for signing and avoids having to

  specify a key id when it's desired to use the default. Thanks to

  Fabian Beutel for the patch.



* Used a uniform approach with subprocess on Windows and POSIX: shell=True

  is not used on either.



* When signing/verifying, the status is updated to reflect any expired or

  revoked keys or signatures.



* Handled 'NOTATION_NAME' and 'NOTATION_DATA' during verification.



* Fixed #1, #16, #18, #20: Quoting approach changed, since now shell=False.



* Fixed #14: Handled 'NEED_PASSPHRASE_PIN' message.



* Fixed #8: Added a scan_keys method to allow scanning of keys without the

  need to import into a keyring. Thanks to Venzen Khaosan for the suggestion.



* Fixed #5: Added '0x' prefix when searching for keys. Thanks to Aaron Toponce

  for the report.



* Fixed #4: Handled 'PROGRESS' message during encryption. Thanks to Daniel

  Mills for the report.



* Fixed #3: Changed default encoding to Latin-1.



* Fixed #2: Raised ValueError if no recipients were specified

  for an asymmetric encryption request.



* Handled 'UNEXPECTED' message during verification. Thanks to

  David Andersen for the patch.



* Replaced old range(len(X)) idiom with enumerate().



* Refactored ``ListKeys`` / ``SearchKeys`` classes to maximise use of common

  functions.



* Fixed GC94: Added ``export-minimal`` and ``armor`` options when exporting

  keys. This addition was inadvertently left out of 0.3.6.



0.3.6

-----



Released: 2014-02-05



* Fixed GC82: Enabled fast random tests on gpg as well as gpg2.

* Fixed GC85: Avoided deleting temporary file to preserve its permissions.

* Fixed GC87: Avoided writing passphrase to log.

* Fixed GC95: Added ``verify_data()`` method to allow verification of

  signatures in memory.

* Fixed GC96: Regularised end-of-line characters.

* Fixed GC98: Rectified problems with earlier fix for shell injection.



0.3.5

-----



Released: 2013-08-30



* Added improved shell quoting to guard against shell injection.

* Fixed GC76: Added ``search_keys()`` and ``send_keys()`` methods.

* Fixed GC77: Allowed specifying a symmetric cipher algorithm.

* Fixed GC78: Fell back to utf-8 encoding when no other could be determined.

* Fixed GC79: Default key length is now 2048 bits.

* Fixed GC80: Removed the Name-Comment default in key generation.



0.3.4

-----



Released: 2013-06-05



* Fixed GC65: Fixed encoding exception when getting version.

* Fixed GC66: Now accepts sets and frozensets where appropriate.

* Fixed GC67: Hash algorithm now captured in sign result.

* Fixed GC68: Added support for ``--secret-keyring``.

* Fixed GC70: Added support for multiple keyrings.



0.3.3

-----



Released: 2013-03-11



* Fixed GC57: Handled control characters in ``list_keys()``.

* Fixed GC61: Enabled fast random for testing.

* Fixed GC62: Handled ``KEYEXPIRED`` status.

* Fixed GC63: Handled ``NO_SGNR`` status.



0.3.2

-----



Released: 2013-01-17



* Fixed GC56: Disallowed blank values in key generation.

* Fixed GC57: Handled colons and other characters in ``list_keys()``.

* Fixed GC59/GC60: Handled ``INV_SGNR`` status during verification and removed

  calls requiring interactive password input from doctests.



0.3.1

-----



Released: 2012-09-01



* Fixed GC45: Allowed additional arguments to gpg executable.

* Fixed GC50: Used latin-1 encoding in tests when it's known to be required.

* Fixed GC51: Test now returns non-zero exit status on test failure.

* Fixed GC53: Now handles ``INV_SGNR`` and ``KEY_NOT_CREATED`` statuses.

* Fixed GC55: Verification and decryption now return trust level of signer in

  integer and text form.



0.3.0

-----



Released: 2012-05-12



* Fixed GC49: Reinstated Yann Leboulanger's change to support subkeys

  (accidentally left out in 0.2.7).



0.2.9

-----



Released: 2012-03-29



* Fixed GC36: Now handles ``CARDCTRL`` and ``POLICY_URL`` messages.

* Fixed GC40: Now handles ``DECRYPTION_INFO``, ``DECRYPTION_FAILED`` and

  ``DECRYPTION_OKAY`` messages.

* The ``random_binary_data file`` is no longer shipped, but constructed by the

  test suite if needed.



0.2.8

-----



Released: 2011-09-02



* Fixed GC29: Now handles ``IMPORT_RES`` while verifying.

* Fixed GC30: Fixed an encoding problem.

* Fixed GC33: Quoted arguments for added safety.



0.2.7

-----



Released: 2011-04-10



* Fixed GC24: License is clarified as BSD.

* Fixed GC25: Incorporated Daniel Folkinshteyn's changes.

* Fixed GC26: Incorporated Yann Leboulanger's subkey change.

* Fixed GC27: Incorporated hysterix's support for symmetric encryption.

* Did some internal cleanups of Unicode handling.



0.2.6

-----



Released: 2011-01-25



* Fixed GC14: Should be able to accept passphrases from GPG-Agent.

* Fixed GC19: Should be able to create a detached signature.

* Fixed GC21/GC23: Better handling of less common responses from GPG.



0.2.5

-----



Released: 2010-10-13



* Fixed GC11/GC16: Detached signatures can now be created.

* Fixed GC3: Detached signatures can be verified.

* Fixed GC12: Better support for RSA and IDEA.

* Fixed GC15/GC17: Better support for non-ASCII input.



0.2.4

-----



Released: 2010-03-01



* Fixed GC9: Now allows encryption without armor and the ability to encrypt

  and decrypt directly to/from files.



0.2.3

-----



Released: 2010-01-07



* Fixed GC7: Made sending data to process threaded and added a test case.

  With a test data file used by the test case, the archive size has gone up

  to 5MB (the size of the test file).



0.2.2

-----



Released: 2009-10-06



* Fixed GC5/GC6: Added ``--batch`` when specifying ``--passphrase-fd`` and

  changed the name of the distribution file to add the ``python-`` prefix.



0.2.1

-----



Released: 2009-08-07



* Fixed GC2: Added ``handle_status()`` method to the ``ListKeys`` class.



0.2.0

-----



Released: 2009-07-16



* Various changes made to support Python 3.0.



0.1.0

-----



Released: 2009-07-04



* Initial release.