tinygpgs 0.1

symmetric key encryption and decryption compatible with GPG

tinygpgs is a fast library and standalone Python 2 script for doing symmetric key (passphrase-based) encryption and decryption using the OpenPGP file format compatible with GPG (GnuPG).

Usage

File class API usage for encryption:

import getpass
from tinygpgs.file import GpgSymmetricFile
f = GpgSymmetricFile('FILE.bin.gpg', 'wb', getpass.getpass())
try:
  f.write('Hello, World!\n')
  f.write('This is the end.\n')
finally:
  f.close()

File class API usage for decryption:

import getpass
from tinygpgs.file import GpgSymmetricFile
f = GpgSymmetricFile('FILE.bin', 'rb', getpass.getpass())
try:
  # Use f.read(8192) in a loop instead to limit memory usage.
  print(f.read())
finally:
  f.close()

For encryption, it also provides the encryptedfile 1.1.1 interface for easy migration:

import getpass
from tinygpgs.file import EncryptedFile  # Just for compatibility.
f = EncryptedFile('FILE.bin.gpg', mode='wb', passphrase=getpass.getpass())
try:
  f.write('Hello, World!\n')
  f.write('This is the end.\n')
finally:
  f.close()

Command-line tool usage:

$ python -m tinygpgs -c FILE.bin                  # Encrypt.
Enter passphrase:
$ python -m tinygpgs -d <FILE.bin.gpg >FILE2.bin  # Decrypt.
Enter passphrase:
$ cmp FILE.bin FILE2.bin

The command-line tool has many flags identical to gpg(1), so you can use python -m tinygpgs as a drop-in replacement for gpg for symmetric key encryption and decryption.

Features

tinygpgs supports all ciphers, hashes, string-to-key modes, output formats (binary and ASCII armor) and compression methods in the OpenPGP RFC for both encryption and decryption. All these settings are configurable in keyword arguments to the class constructors and in command-line flags.

tinygpgs doesn’t support public-key cryptography (e.g. encryption, signing and key generation).

Installation

To get the library, run this:

$ pip install tinygpgs pycrypto

Please note that tinygpgs works without pycrypto as well, but with pycrypto it works much faster, even comparable with gpg(1): less than 1.37 slower.

To get the standalone version of the command-line tool (single executable file for Unix, contains the library embedded), see https://github.com/pts/tinygpgs.

You need Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7. tinygpgs doesn’t work on Python 3 yet.

More info

See see https://github.com/pts/tinygpgs.

License

tinygpgs is free software released under the MIT license. There is NO WARRANTY. Use at your risk.