Accessing pgp encrypted file in Ruby

Question

I have a pgp-encrypted file that I need to extract data from at runtime.
Can this be done by decrypting to memory only (as opposed to creating a decrypted file and deleting it when done)?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 05 '09 at 06:46

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A Ruby library called OpenPGP was released a few months ago. It seems like it'd work for you.

answered Jul 05 '09 at 06:46

Yehuda Katz

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '11 at 16:26

Unfortunately, most of the methods (e.g. sign(), verify(), encrypt(), and decrypt()) are not yet implemented (by the time of this writing) in the OpenPGP gem, which makes it useless.

I also found gpgr (https://github.com/HHRy/gpgr) not to be useful.

I am using gpg-me (https://github.com/ueno/ruby-gpgme/) for signing emails. At least for this purpose, it works fine.

I have not tried to decrypt files, but a short look at the source codes suggests that it will also work.

Accessing pgp encrypted file in Ruby

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