@include gnus-overrides.texi
-@setfilename ../../info/pgg
-@settitle PGG @value{VERSION}
+@setfilename ../../info/pgg.info
@set VERSION 0.1
+@settitle PGG @value{VERSION}
+
+@documentencoding UTF-8
@copying
This file describes PGG @value{VERSION}, an Emacs interface to various
PGP implementations.
-Copyright @copyright{} 2001, 2003-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 2001, 2003--2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
-Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU Manual,''
+Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being ``A GNU Manual,''
and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license
is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License.''
(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have the freedom to copy and
-modify this GNU manual. Buying copies from the FSF supports it in
-developing GNU and promoting software freedom.''
+modify this GNU manual.''
@end quotation
@end copying
PGG is an interface library between Emacs
and various tools for secure communication. PGG also provides a simple
user interface to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify MIME messages.
+This package is obsolete; for new code we recommend EasyPG instead.
+@xref{Top,, EasyPG, epa, EasyPG Assistant User's Manual}.
@ifnottex
-@insertcopying
+@insertcopying
@end ifnottex
@menu
* Overview:: What PGG is.
* Prerequisites:: Complicated stuff you may have to do.
* How to use:: Getting started quickly.
-* Architecture::
-* Parsing OpenPGP packets::
+* Architecture::
+* Parsing OpenPGP packets::
* GNU Free Documentation License:: The license for this documentation.
-* Function Index::
-* Variable Index::
+* Function Index::
+* Variable Index::
@end menu
@node Overview
deal with detached PGP messages, normally used in PGP/MIME
infrastructure. This was the main reason why I wrote the new library.
+Note that the PGG library is now obsolete, replaced by EasyPG.
+@xref{Top,, EasyPG, epa, EasyPG Assistant User's Manual}.
+
PGP/MIME is an application of MIME Object Security Services (RFC1848).
The standard is documented in RFC2015.
This document assumes that you have already obtained and installed them
and that you are familiar with its basic functions.
-By default, PGG uses GnuPG. If you are new to such a system, I
+By default, PGG uses GnuPG@. If you are new to such a system, I
recommend that you should look over the GNU Privacy Handbook (GPH)
which is available at @uref{http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/}.
When using GnuPG, we recommend the use of the @code{gpg-agent}
-program, which is distributed with versions 2.0 and later of GnuPG.
+program, which is distributed with versions 2.0 and later of GnuPG@.
This is a daemon to manage private keys independently from any
protocol, and provides the most secure way to input and cache your
passphrases (@pxref{Caching passphrase}). By default, PGG will
@end lisp
@menu
-* User Commands::
-* Selecting an implementation::
-* Caching passphrase::
-* Default user identity::
+* User Commands::
+* Selecting an implementation::
+* Caching passphrase::
+* Default user identity::
@end menu
@node User Commands
Since PGG was designed for accessing and developing PGP functionality,
the architecture had to be designed not just for interoperability but
-also for extensiblity. In this chapter we explore the architecture
+also for extensibility. In this chapter we explore the architecture
while finding out how to write the PGG back end.
@menu
-* Initializing::
-* Back end methods::
-* Getting output::
+* Initializing::
+* Back end methods::
+* Getting output::
@end menu
@node Initializing
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