RE: [PATCH 1/1] gpg-interface: add minTrustLevel as a configuration option

From: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Dec 24, 2019, 14:20 UTC
Message-ID: <016c01d5ba65$3d8690f0$b893b2d0$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <877e2mq7t9.hji@dyntopia.com>

On December 24, 2019 6:31 AM, Hans Jerry Illikainen wrote:

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> To: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>; 'SZEDER Gábor'
> <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/1] gpg-interface: add minTrustLevel as a configuration
> option
> 
> On Mon, Dec 23 2019, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> > Side question: are there any tests running with alternate GPG
> > packages? I have a platform where the official GPG itself is not
> > available, so am looking for alternatives for that community.
> 
> Do you mean non-standard builds or forks of GnuPG, or alternative
> implementations of PGP?

I am specially looking for alterative implementations of PGP, not forks of GnuPG. GnuPG v2 introduced some dependencies that are not available on a few platforms that I support.

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> As it stands, the test suite is hardcoded to use gpg and gpgsm (see e.g.
> t/lib-gpg.sh).  For normal use, the gpg.program and gpg.<format>.program
> config options can be used to override the programs to use.  However, any
> alternative implementation would have to mimic the behavior of GnuPG (see
> gpg-interface.c -- a number of hardcoded arguments are passed in
> verify_signed_buffer() and sign_buffer(), and the output from various
> operations are GnuPG-specific.)

Thanks, Randall