** Description **

This package provides a cross-platform Tcl wrapper around the '''gpg''' ''binary'' from the "Gnu Privacy Guard" [http://www.gnupg.org] project providing for several basic operations:
   * Digitally signing messages.
   * Verification of digital signatures.
   * Encryption/decryption of messages.

The project was started to fulfill the need of using PGP in [tkabber] while ditching the [tclgpgme] package which provides Tcl bindings to the GPGME library [http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/index.en.html] (written in C) which, in turn, is a wrapper around the '''gpg''' binary. [tclgpgme] is unmaintained and its current version is far out of sync with the current version of GPGME.

** Availability **

The project is hosted at https://chiselapp.com/user/sgolovan/repository/tclgpg/.

Currently it's in an "alpha" stage so there's no release tarballs yet. On the other hand the code already works OK for [tkabber].

** Requirements **

This package requires support for creation of standalone pipes in Tcl, so it requires Tcl >= 8.6 with its [chan pipe] command or any version of Tcl with either [Tclx] or [tclpipe] package available.

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