netpgp is a BSD licensed project based on the

OpenPGP Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitio ...

SDK which provides signing, verification, encryption, and decryption of files. It also comes with the netpgpkeys tool for key management. Netpgp is a higher level wrapper and improvement upon the OpenPGP SDK library written by

Ben Laurie Ben Laurie is an English software engineer. He is currently the Director of Security at The Bunker Secure Hosting. Laurie wrote Apache-SSL, the basis of most SSL-enabled versions of the Apache HTTP Server. He developed the MUD ''Gods'', which was ...

and Rachel Willmer. The public api of OpenPGP SDK is hidden exposing a simple interface for encryption and decryption as well as generating and verifying digital signatures. netpgp was included in the

NetBSD NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It was the first open-source BSD descendant officially released after 386BSD was forked. It continues to be actively developed and is a ...

distribution in May 2009 and in

MidnightBSD MidnightBSD is a free Unix, desktop-oriented operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 6.1, and periodically updated with code and drivers from later FreeBSD releases. Its default desktop environment, Xfce, is a lightweight user friendly ...

in June 2009.MidnightBSD src repository
/ref>

References

External links

NetPGP
* Cryptographic software NetBSD OpenPGP Privacy software {{unix-stub